Hey another update for you all two in a row and I'm glad that the last chap wasn't confusing for you, but anyway on with the story.
Warning: M and Yaoi.
Disclaimer: still don't own Yugioh,
CHAP 29: Primal Instincts
Malik sighed as he leant out the top floor window trying to look up, it had been a week since the trial and Ryou looked to be falling apart little by little every day "He's up there again?" Malik bumped the back of his head in the window as he brought it back in rubbing it he said.
"Where else would he be?"
"Look out I'll get him," Marik walked to the window and climbed out and leapt up to the top of the roof, as like every afternoon he found Ryou sitting there watching the sun set. Marik and Malik had their work cut out for them when they had brought Ryou back with them, he wouldn't stop crying he wouldn't do anything unless Marik growled at him and commanded him, he didn't even talk for three days he just stared lost in his mind, but then the ring showed up around his neck and Ryou seemed to have turned into a lifeless zombie, he talked but it held nothing no emotion at all and he seemed to look right through everyone as if no one was there to begin with.
"Hey Ryou, Malik made dinner for you, you should come in and eat before it gets cold." Ryou didn't respond, Marik sighed again, Ryou would sit up here or any high point he could find and just stare at the sky as if he would be able to see Bakura fly down to him at any minute. Marik had asked him why the former angel had said it was the closet way he could be to Bakura without flying. "It's getting cold."
"I want to stay a little longer," came a whisper from Ryou, Marik sat down next to him.
"I miss him too." Marik looked over the city as the light from the sun cast its orange hue with the shadows of the buildings and the ocean on the outskirts.
"He wasn't insane, he knew me." Tears started to fall down his cheeks.
"They need to know how long he was in the sleep for and what took place."
"It's just their way of keeping Bakura from me like always, you know I have never spent more time with him back then, than when I had fallen, before I was an angel he would see me and bring me food then leave right after, then I became an angel and the same thing, he had to collect souls but he always came back to me."
"And he will this time you'll see," Marik wiped the tears away and lifted his chin to face him, "He is with Ra now, he is safe and looked after and if Anubis said that Bakura would be returned one day, then I believe him but for now we have to wait."
"For how long, this world might not even look familiar to him when they do and I would have forgotten his voice and touch." He bit his lip.
"I won't let that happen." Marik gave him a smile as Ryou lent his head on his shoulder as they sat there in silence and watched the sunset.
Ishizu sighed as Shizuka shifted nervously they walked down what looked like a human hospital, it had been two weeks since the trial of the Grim Reaper Bakura and the two girls were called to the Egyptian realm of the gods. "We have tried everything and we are at a loss." One of the 'nurses' said as she walked next to them.
"I don't know how we can help you, as I never really had anything to do with him." Ishizu asked.
"You two are the best in your field besides Solomon," the 'nurses' said as they turned down a corridor.
"I see, but why did you call us and what is this place?" Shizuka asked as they came to a stop at a door, the nurses opened it and they walked in.
"The healer will explain everything," she turned and left.
"Hi I'm Arthur," said a tall thin man with grey hair, he looked to be as old as Solomon. The girls introduced themselves to him. "Okay I'll just show you, please sit down." He motioned Ishizu to a chair, he walked around her and stood in front of her.
"What has been done with Bakura while he's been here?" she asked as he placed what looked like goggles over her eyes.
"We haven't been able to do much with him, he kills anything that he sees and what your about to see is why I can only show you a few minutes of it, as the last person is very unstable at the moment." Before she could say anything he stepped back and flipped a switch and picked up a small bucket.
She could see a room, it was the quarters that the angels lived in, Ryou sat on the bed with a book reading and a few candles glowed near by, but it all changed she gasped in shock as Ryou's face and body opened up in small cuts and blood dripped onto the white sheets. She couldn't move as a dark figure stood over Ryou with the knife, she closed her eyes but opened them upon hearing a scream, she saw the figure pounding into the angel. She called out but unable to move or help as he stabbed the angel through the heart and got up and walked away. The room changed again to Ryou strung up arms suspended above his head as a whip cracked over his back, legs and arms.
Her body went ridged in the chair and she grasped the arms and gritted her teeth, tears started to fall, after a few minutes Arthur turned it off, Ishizu pulled off the goggles and fell out of the chair onto her hands and knees. The old man put the bucket under her face just in time as she threw up. After she fell back onto her rear and wiped her mouth with the back of her hand. "What was that?" she gasped fear and shock was all that was seen on her face and in her eyes.
"That my girl was Devil's sleep and he was in it for a whole night." He turned and sat down on a near by chair.
"No," she gasped, if that was all he saw was his angel being tortured in front of him and not being able to help him for the whole night, no wonder he was out of it. He then turned to a small t.v the screen lit up Ishizu shakily got up and sat on the chair.
"This is what happed the first time we approached him the next day." The screen showed a room with light green walls and Bakura sitting in the middle of the room on the floor he was wearing white cotton pants and t-shirt, one of the nurses walked in with a tray of food, she didn't even get two steps in when Bakura lunged at her and within a few seconds he had killed her with his hands.
"That was mild compared to the others, every time he gets more violent, we had to tranquillise him just to get in there and clean up the mess." he shook his head.
"Where is he now?" Shizuka asked.
"We put him in a room here," he pushed a button and the screen changed to a field with green grass and a small stream with a willow tree. Under the tree was Bakura leaning against it with his eyes closed and seemed to be asleep, "He is calmer on his own so we put him here he gets sunlight and fresh air."
"Has he tried to escape?" Ishizu asked.
"Yes," the screen changed once again to Bakura running at the wall with a broken chair and hitting it. "We had to restrain him on the count that the chair legs broke and he started to use his fists. But the field he can't escape."
"What is it you want from us?" she asked.
"To help us get him back to what he was before the sleep, what he is now he's just a small minded demon with the need for blood on his mind." Arthur sighed.
"If I recall Bakura was like that before all of this." She sighed as well and looked at the screen "I'll help, but I'll need every record you have of the last few weeks and footage as well, give me two days to look through everything then I might be able to come up with something." She stood up.
"I'll show you to your rooms and everything that you need will be there, but a word of caution do not approach him on your own and without him being sedated." He opened the door for her and they left the room, on the small screen Bakura turned his head and gave an evil smirk and would have looked right at them if they were still in the room.
Ryou sighed as he walked down the street, he giggled as Malik picked up a hand full of snow off the sidewalk and threw it at Marik hitting him in the back of the head. "Score one for me," Malik laughed then it was on, the snowball fight started as Marik pulled Ryou behind a tree. "Marik that's not fair!" Malik whined.
"You have to be quicker than that." He called back Ryou laughed again throwing a snowball to the next tree that Malik was behind. Yugi and Jou walked by Malik grabbed them both and more snowballs flew through the air but it all ended as a few of them hit some elderly people walking by, they all ran off Ryou calling out a sorry.
The three soon walked through the doors, taking off their wet coats and boots. "Snacks and hot chocolate?" Malik asked and they both nodded their heads.
Ryou ran up the stairs taking two at a time Marik and Malik right behind him, going into their own rooms, Ryou closed the door behind him and walked over to the closet pulling out clothes and holding them for a few minutes in his hands, he looked out the window at the cloud covered sky, he dumped them on the bed as he walked to his window and climbed out onto the roof.
He slipped a few times but didn't fall, he sat down not caring the he was already wet, he looked up and the snow flakes fell into his hair and on his face, he closed his eyes as a few tears fell making his cheeks more cold. He opened his eyes and sighed. "I know that your not going to be happy, but Malik and Marik are teaching me how to pick locks and safes, more or less taking your place in the team," he said to no one and chuckled to himself. "I'm pretty good at it too," he smiled but it faded. "I miss you." He buried his face into his knees.
"Ryou?" Marik approached him, "I thought we talked about this?" Ryou lifted his head and nodded.
"I know," he looked up, "I'm sorry, I'm trying not to, but I just."
"Don't get me wrong Ryou I'm not going to tell you how long its been and that you should just get over it, hell I'm not over it yet either, but it's the middle of winter and if you keep coming up here your going to get sick." He held out his hand Ryou took it and stood up. "Or you could end up falling of this roof and break your neck." Marik's eyes widened.
"Don't worry about it Marik." Ryou gave him a smile.
"I do all the time." He had come up here after three weeks and Ryou was standing so close to the edge of the house and looked about to jump, in fact he was. Marik was thankful that he had gotten there in time and explained to Ryou that killing himself would be like him slapping Bakura's face.
"Come on I don't want you to get sick Malik would have my head." Ryou joked as they made their way back inside. Once they were in the room Marik walked out and left Ryou to change, he pulled off his wet clothes and dumped them in the corner of his room, he pulled the dry ones on that he left on the bed a pair of black slacks and a grey skive and a pair of woolly socks, on his way out he saw the photo of himself and Bakura in the tug a-war over a cream puff, he picked it up and looked Bakura over, it had been three months now and with it, it brought nightmares of them torturing Bakura leaving him in the darkness for long periods of time.
But one that he did have was that night after Marik found him on the roof. Bakura had come to him during the night, but when morning broke upon them the two curled up tightly together. Arms were wrapped around bare torsos, fingers latched together in a skin on skin contact. But when Ryou's eyes fluttered open he stared at the wall. He could feel the last vestige of drying tears, his heart sunk being eaten away by the pits of despair that now sat within his very soul, unmoving as Bakura was no longer with him. Even now, he could smell the Reaper's spicy, cool scent on the pillow he cradled. Bakura had always insisted on sleeping against the wall, no matter what bed they were in, something about needing to have something solid and safe keeping his back made it easier to sleep. It all started out sitting under a willow tree next to a stream, he talked to Ryou like he knew what he was about to do but after that they ended up in Ryou's bed, he blushed it was just like that night on the cloud. But funny enough Ryou didn't feel as depressed, he still was but not as bad. A call from Malik he put the photo down on the desk and left the room.
Ishizu sighed as Bakura attacked yet another image when it faded he would go back and sit under the tree again, or in the shadows where they couldn't see him. It didn't matter what walked in there if it was alive and it moved Bakura would attack it until it didn't move any more or bleed. "I looked through everything I just don't understand." Shizuka frowned as she closed yet another folder.
"Sedate him, bring him into the room," Ishizu said as she stood up and watched as Bakura jumped to his feet growling, as two men walked in and he lunged at them but upon reaching them they were just holograms, he turned only to be shot in the chest three times. They cried out as Bakura ran over and grabbed one off them but he started to weaken and he fell to his knees, they let out a breath as they grabbed an arm each and dragged him out.
He was awake as they chained his wrists and ankles to the arms and legs of the steel chair. Ishizu walked in not to long after and put the folders on the table, there was just something not right about the whole situation. "Good afternoon Bakura." She greeted him as she sat down, the two men stood in the corner behind her.
"I know that you're tired of being here and being dragged in and out of this room all the time for theses talks. But it's just to let you know how far you have come along or not." He just growled at her and pulled on the chains as if testing them. "How about you tell me what you want as I'm baffled as to what I can do to help you, we all are so what do you want?" he narrowed his eyes but said nothing.
"Come on Bakura I know that there's some part of you in there that knows what I'm asking?" He pulled more on the chains. "If you don't start to show some sort of response, then they just might put you in Zilla with the rest of them." He pulled even more cutting in to his wrists. She stood up gathered up the folders and went to walk away.
"Ryou." She stopped and turned to face him as the name just barely reached her ears.
"What about him?" she asked walking back to the table putting the folders back down.
"Ryou" he mumbled again but it seemed to Ishizu to be incoherent, she sat down looking at him and he looked up at her but he looked right through her.
"Do you want to see him?" he growled at her then fell silent again.
"Look I can't do anything until you help me out you can't see Ryou until your better."
"RYOU'S DEAD!" he broke the chains and the arms of the chair Ishizu fell backwards in her chair as he leaped over the table at her, the two men ran forward as he grabbed her around the neck with both hands. "YOU KILLED HIM!" he screamed she was ripping at his hands as the men shot him with the tranquilliser one after another until their guns were empty but he didn't let go at all until one of them hit him over the back of the head. He fell on top of her she gasped for air holding her throat as her chest raised and fell rapidly they pulled him off her as she sat up.
"Take him back." They dragged him out Shizuka ran into the room.
"Are you aright?" she asked, her eyes wide in panic.
"Yeah fine." Shizuka helped her up to her feet. "I think I have to look more into the image files than just a few minutes." She rubbed her neck a bruise started to form.
"But Arthur said."
"I know, but I have to, to see why he is like this and why nothing is working for him."
"But you could end up like that," she said as they walked to the door.
"No Devil's sleep works on the individual and works with it making something nice into their worst nightmare," she paused for a minute as they walked down the hall then said "It won't do anything for me as it's not me I'll just be looking."
"Yes but the last guy was unstable for a while."
"Yes it depends on the persons mind itself, I think I'm strong enough to do it, so you have nothing to worry about." Ishizu opened a door and walked in and left the door open for Shizuka as she sat behind a desk.
"I don't like this nor am I condoning it." Shizuka closed the door.
"Then what do you suppose that I do?" she said sternly.
"Well…" she stopped and sat down thinking for a minute then said "Why not go and get the angel himself maybe Bakura will come out of what ever he's in." Shizuka said but there was something in her tone that Ishizu couldn't place.
"And what let the angel just stroll in there and say hi baby heard that they think your nuts so here I am to make you better?" she growled.
"You don't have to be sarcastic about it and no that's not what I was implying." Shizuka snapped.
"What are you implying then?" Ishizu yelled.
"I don't know, stop yelling at me!" they both glared at each other for a minute, "I just think that Bakura would respond better with someone who is close to him that's all, if not the angel then there would be someone else who is, right?"
Ishizu let out an irritated sigh and lent on the desk, "Fine, who ever it is, would have to be strong just in case and a reaper as well and has to like Bakura and vice a versa." This just might be what she needed.
"Right so do you know who that is then." Shizuka asked.
"No… but I might know who does though." She got up and walked to the door.
"Who?" Shizuka asked.
"This I have to do by myself I'll be gone for a bit don't do anything until I get back." The door closed and Ishizu walked down the hall and vanished.
TBC
That's it from me tonight, this would be three updates in 24 hours, (sighs) anyway I'm just hoping to get this finished before I go away at the end of the week for training, as I'll be gone until Easter time. So if I don't get it finished then you'll have to wait until I get back, but lets see how I go.
R&R
