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Warning: M and Yaoi and contains abuse just a little not much.

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CHAP 32: A Light In The Darkness


The late morning sun shone in the room, Ryou started to show signs of waking as he stretched and yawned, but found himself the only one in the bed, he sat up and looked around indeed he was alone, he closed his eyes for a second but found himself being pushed back onto the bed with all to familiar lips pressed to his. Ryou gasped "Bakura?"

"I was wondering where I was, until I saw you." He lay on his side next to Ryou.

"You saw me?" Ryou turned his head as Bakura played with a piece of his white hair.

"By the tree not to long ago. But then you were gone before I could say anything to you… where did you go my love?" Bakura kissed his cheek, his left leg between Ryou's knees and his top half on Ryou's side as Bakura's left hand now moved up and down his arm and his breath tickled Ryou's ear and neck.

"I had to leave." Ryou's voice caught in his throat as Bakura lent up frowning at him, Ryou I didn't want to tell him that he had attacked him and Marik.

"You're lying." Bakura hissed Ryou locked eyes with him.

"I'm sorry I just didn't know what to do" Ryou looked away.

"Don't be, I know it was the darkness." Bakura gently grabbed his chin and made Ryou look at him, "It didn't hurt you did it?" he asked worriedly.

"No, but I have brought you home." Ryou smiled as he tucked white hair behind Bakura's ear who turned his head sharply to the right, his eyes narrowed and he growled, Ryou looked as well but saw nothing.

"I have to go." Bakura said no more than a whisper, as if a child was being forced to face their worst nightmare alone.

"No stay with me." Ryou cupped his cheek lovingly.

"I can't." Bakura looked at him sadly. "As much as I'd love to stay with you, I'm not yet free."

"I will free you." Ryou said as Bakura sighed and began to fade, "No don't go, stay and we'll fight it together." Ryou said as he tightened his hold on Bakura, "I'm not afraid of the darkness I'll kill it."

"I know." Bakura's voice echoed in his mind.

Ryou sat up in the bed his chest heaved with needed air and found himself alone in the room, he swung his legs over the edge of the bed and moved to his feet and walked to the door to find it open he stepped out and started down the hall, but stopped on seeing the room Bakura was in.

A strange feeling ran through him Bakura had come to him once again but this time he was in Marik and Malik's bed, it wasn't the first time he had slept in the same bed with the two platinum blondes and hoped that Bakura would understand. He bit his lip as he grasped the door handle and turned it then stepped inside the room. Ryou's bedroom was dark as always but it had a cold bite to it. "Bakura?" he whispered as he neared the bed but it was empty, slept in, but empty. Ryou frowned maybe he was down stairs and fine after all and that dream was just something from his own mind. He turned and jumped back as Bakura stood there blocking his way from the door. "Y-your-up." Ryou took a step forward but stopped as Bakura growled at him then lunged at him.

Ryou ducked around him and ran for the door, Bakura grabbed his ankle and tripped him up, he hit his shoulder on the dresser and knocked off the photo and a few other things he cried as pain shot through his arm. Bakura turned him over straddled his waist, "I want to know what he said to you?" he hissed as he reached over and grabbed the broken glass next to Ryou's head.

"What?" Ryou gasped as he saw the glass in his hand.

"I know, I know all, he gets away from me and runs to you, so you die and he'll come and be able for me to break him." Bakura brought the glass down.

"NO!" Ryou screamed out as he rolled his top half and the glass went all the way into his left upper arm stopping at Bakura's hand. He pulled it out and went to bring it back down again but he was pulled off and Ryou was dragged out of the room the door shut.

"Malik get the first aid kit," Marik commanded as he lifted Ryou to his feet Malik ran into the room as Marik walked Ryou to the bathroom. "What were you thinking?" Marik held his hand over the top of Ryou's hand.

"I wanted to see him." Tears of pain fell.

"Didn't I tell you that we'd fix this together?" Marik asked as he moved both their hands and the blood gushed from his arm.

"Yes," Ryou hissed as the wound opened.

"Dammit it's deep." Marik picked up the cloth that was near by and placed it over his arm. Marik closed his eyes and healed Ryou, he groaned as the wound started to heal.

Malik walked in with the box in hand. "It'll need stitches." Marik said.

"I'll do that," Malik said as he stood next to Marik who moved out of the way.

"I didn't think that he would OUCH!" Ryou closed his eyes as Malik slid the small needle through the wound.

"Sorry?" Malik mumbled as he kept working.

"Be this bad," Ryou looked away.

"Ryou we have no idea what they did to him while he was there, you must be cautious while you're around him at all times." Marik walked to the door as Malik finished on Ryou's arm.

"There," Malik put the stuff back and pulled out a bandage and wrapped Ryou's arm after he was done Malik closed the box Ryou got down and followed them out into the hallway.

"He seems to be okay if he's left alone." Marik said as they walked by the bedroom door and down the stairs and walked to the kitchen. Malik started to cook as Ryou sat down at the table. The three looked up as the doorbell rang.

Marik waked out of the room and opened the door, "Hey Marik, is Ryou ready?" Yugi asked.

"What?" Marik looked confused.

"We were going out, to the mall and the movies." Yugi smiled as Marik let him in he went to close the door but a hand stopped it, Marik rolled his eyes as he opened the door again, he should've known that Yami never went anywhere without Yugi or out on his own.

They walked as Yugi was interrogating Ryou on his arm, "Who did that to you?" Ryou bit his lip as he looked at Marik then shifted his gaze, Yami caught it and glared at Marik.

"It wasn't me" Marik stepped back holding his hands up.

"No one said it was you." Malik said as he sat down with the plates of waffles.

"No but he was looking at me as if I did." Marik sat down next to Malik.

"It was Bakura." Ryou sighed.

"What?" Yami said disbelieving. "I didn't think he was back… but Bakura wouldn't hurt you." Yami sat down, Yugi looked ready to cry.

"No he didn't hurt me he tried to… kill me." Ryou tired to control the tears that wanted to fall.

"Did he say anything to you before he…?" Yami gave Marik a look that asked where were you when this was happening.

"Yeah he asked what did I say to him and that he comes to me and if I die then he'll be able…" Ryou looked down "It was like he didn't even see me."

"Could he refer to he as in Bakura?" Yami asked Ryou who just shrugged.

"Maybe, but he should know me he came to me and asked me for help, once he asked me to keep the ring safe and him from the darkness, the second he told me they were doing this to him." Ryou sighed but went wide-eyed as Yugi sat on his lap.

"That's horrible." He said as he hugged Ryou.

"If they have messed around with his mind, then all of us are strangers to him and we are a threat to him." Yami lent back in the chair.

"But why would he ask me for help then attack me?" Ryou said as he hugged Yugi, who wrinkled his nose and lent back.

"You smell like Malik and Marik." He jumped off his lap and ran to Yami, everyone looked at Ryou, Yami lent over.

"He's right you smell just like them." He said as he lent back looking at the two.

"I do not stink." Marik growled.

"No ones saying that Marik. But if Ryou has your scent on him and not his own Bakura may not recognize him that well. You should know that," he stopped "Yugi why don't you go into the living room." Yami put him on his feet.

"We have a new game," Malik said Yugi walked out of the room. Yami waited before continuing.

"What are you blabbering about?" Marik growled.

"We as in Reapers and Angels go off the scent of a particular special person that suits us and we find them that way." Yami sighed. "Have you forgotten?"

"No," Marik blushed that was how he found Malik half frozen and almost dead the scent was only meant to exist in their world how a human had it was beyond him, but then again he could see Malik in white wings and robes or beater yet black wings and a leather out fit.

"Well if that's the case then Ryou needs to shower and change." Malik said.

"But what if he tries to…" Ryou bit his lip.

"I don't think he'll this time and we'll be right there if you need us, I need you to talk to him so I can take him to the realm of the gods without him attacking them on site." Marik stood up.

"Your going to the gods?" Yami asked as he stood up.

"I'm going to see Anubis himself." Marik said as Ryou got up and walked to the door.

"Then I'll be back in a few minutes." Ryou walked out. They didn't have to wait long when Ryou walked back into the kitchen.

"Well if you're ready then." Marik stood up and walked over to Ryou. "You'll have him back to his normal self soon."

"And a pain in the ass to society." Yami smirked as he followed them. They stopped outside the bedroom door.

"We'll be with you." Marik said as he opened the door and stepped inside Yami right behind them, they didn't get a warning as Bakura grabbed Ryou and pulled him away from them and pushed the others out into the hall and the door slammed shut, Marik got up and ran to the door and tired to open it, "RYOU!" he banged on it but he jumped back as something hard hit the door and shook it as if telling him to leave.

"Just listen and wait." Yami stood next to him and lent his ear on the door.

In the room Ryou fell back against the wall Bakura turned to face him, "Bakura?" but he gasped as Bakura ran a finger up his left arm and stopped at the bandage, his eyes snapped from Ryou's arm to his brown eyes. Bakura lent in narrowed his eyes as he looked into the former angel, as if studying him. He roared in Ryou's face flared his wings and started to throw things around the room cursing and yelling incoherently.

Ryou who dared not move while the reaper was throwing his tantrum Bakura fell to his knees. Ryou stepped forward taking one step at a time until he reached Bakura and knelt down and wrapped his arms around him, Bakura tensed but didn't move, "What did they do to you?" Ryou held him more tightly.

Bakura spread his black wings and Ryou fell back on his back and elbows with a cry, Bakura turned around, "Are you even real or are you darkness that will eat my soul until there's nothing left?"

"I'm not the darkness, I'm the child you looked after in the burning sand and the teen that loved you and you turned into an angel to be by your side forever, now I'm the broken and fallen angel without wings, but never the darkness." Ryou didn't move, as Bakura looked at him something in him crumbled in his mind as he crawled over to Ryou and laid his head on Ryou's abdomen and wrapped his arms around his waist.

"The darkness will come again for you." Bakura looked up. "But your not going anywhere with it, this time I'll kill it." He growled as he tightened his hold, helpless tears fell from Ryou's eyes with no sound as he wrapped his arms around him. Had Bakura been broken long before he had gotten there and pulled him from that hell? The faint pounding on the door and Ryou's name being called.

"Ryou open the door." Marik called through the door, Bakura tensed and growled his feathers ruffed like a dogs heckles.

"I'm fine Marik," Ryou called back.

"Are you sure?" Marik called back, Bakura moved away from Ryou and glared at the door.

"Yes just go your upsetting him." Ryou called back he listened as they walked away, Bakura looked back at Ryou.

"Where are we?" Bakura asked with a confused look on his face. "Where's the darkness?"

"I don't know where the darkness is or what it is, but you're with me now safe I'll keep you safe." Ryou moved to Bakura and cupped his cheek with his left hand Bakura's lips tugged at the corners as if to smile but it never came.

"Safe, your safe?" Bakura asked as he moved closer to Ryou, who nodded. "And you'll keep me from the darkness?"

"Forever." Ryou sat up more as Bakura pulled him into his arm and brought him to his chest Ryou started to sob as he held Bakura tightly, he looked down and lifted Ryou's chin.

"Angels shouldn't cry over a demon." Bakura said growling slightly Ryou shook his head.

"You're my Reaper, not a demon and I'm not an angel anymore." Ryou sat back but gasped as Bakura licked the tears away and Ryou blushed as Bakura moved back he sighed as he looked Bakura over, his hair looked matted and his skin looked paler than normal and his eyes still held that hollow dull look to them that made Ryou's heart sink. Ryou slowly stood up. Bakura watched every move as Ryou held out a hand to him.

"Lets get you cleaned up and dressed," Bakura hesitated but took his hand as he stood up and Ryou lead him out into the hallway he looked down and saw nobody there and walked to the door at the end he opened it and walked in closing the door behind Bakura. Ryou ran the shower he got used to the taps after a while and knew how they worked as Malik showed him.

He pulled off his top and Bakura hissed, Ryou looked confused, "That's what the darkness wants, he'll come for it." Bakura backed up as if it would attack him.

Ryou looked down and clutched it in his hand, "It belongs to you and me."

"No it's evil and with it comes the darkness and pain!" Bakura yelled at Ryou "Take it off Ryou before it gets you." Ryou pulled it off and ran to the door and threw it out it clicked on the ground and it rolled hitting the wall Ryou closed the door again.

"It's gone." Ryou breathed as he noticed Bakura calming down again, 'I'm going to kill this darkness myself for what its done to you' Ryou promised to himself and Bakura.

Ryou helped Bakura into the shower, afterwards Bakura sat on the edge of the bathtub as Ryou worked on his wounds, as Marik was unable to last night. They soon walked out of the bathroom and back to their bedroom, Ryou sat him back as he grabbed his brush and started on the wild mane, thinking on how he could help bring Bakura out of what ever he was in.


TBC

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