Lady Ai: I'm doing this update becuase I thought it was time to update and I'm feeling...tendershipping today. n.n
Yami Ai: Our little Ryou is going for a date!
Lady Ai: I know, it's the just the cutest!
Ryou/blush/
Lady Ai: Now...ON WITH THE CHAPPIE!
'You said I love you, I wish I loved you too'
Chapter Ten
A Date To Remember (Forever)
"What do you think about getting married?"
"W-WHAT!"
"Do you want to? If you do, all you have to do is one little favor for me. To show me you truely want to be with me."
"...Alright. What's the favor?"
Akina smirk. "All you have to do is tell Ryou you hate him. In the worst possible way."
Bakura took a moment to think over it.
"...Fine."
Xx Ryou's POV xX
"Hey guys. I'm sorry but I can't make it to the park with you guys." I smiled, scratching the back of my head. I had already told Joey and Seto so they were a little surprised that I came to the shop. Yami, Yugi, Seto and Joey gaped at what I was wearing and Malik and Marik just laughed.
I was wearing tight ripped jeans and a skin tight light blue tank top. I had recently washed my hair, so it stuck on my face and shoulders. I put a lot of eyeliner today, making my brown eyes stand out more. Wrist cuffs hung on each of my arms, covering sore scars, and I wore a silver arm band on my right.
"Where are you going, looking all sexy like that, Ryou?" Marik asked grinning after laughing. I blushed, I couldn't look sexy in my life. Adorable and cute, yes but sexy?
"He's going on a date with me, of course!" Just then I felt an arm around my shoulder and I gasped at Chris' closeness. "Who else would he look sexy for?...don't answer that."
"And just who are you? Ryou, are you keeping secrets from us again?" Malik asked. Chris took a step back and held a hand to his heart. "Ryou! I can't believe you've kept me a secret from your friends! After all we've done together! Holding hands at the park, kissing in the moon light, taking you to my bed late that one night..."
"RYOU!" The gang gasped.
"CHRIS!" I smacked Chris's head and tried to hide my mad blush. He laughed. "I'm just kidding! Geez! You guys take things to seriously. Anyway, let me properly introduce myself. My name's Chris and I'm from America so my japenese is a little bad but not much."
"We're Ryou's friends. My name is Malik, my boyfriend Marik, one that looks like dog is Joey, his boyfriend the CEO of Kaiba Corp- Seto, the small star-fished hair is Yugi and his boyfriend Yami." Malik grinned as everyone glared at him except for Marik.
"I've already met four of you."
"Why is everyone keeping secrets from us? I just recently found out that Ryou slapped the whore and now this!" Marik yelled. Joey looked at me wide eyed and Seto raised and eyebrow at me. "Heh, well...she pissed me off, okay! I had to shut her up at one point or another ne?" Joey laughed and high fived me.
"Well, it was nice to talk with you people but Ryou and I have a date. Let's go." Chris smiled, grabbed my hand and dragged me out of the shop. "Get in." He got out his car keys and walked to a silver Volvo. I opened the door of the passenger seat and got in. Chris smiled at me and reeved up the car, turning on the radio doing so.
Xx Author's POV xX
Ryou leaned back on the car seat, sighed and looked out the window. Chris threw a worried glance to Ryou. "Is everything alright?" Ryou still held his gaze to the clouds. "Sorta. Just thinking about. . .things."
"About Bakura, right?" The tone of his voice made Ryou turn away to face Chris. Ryou saw a small note of hurt but Chris smiled and shook his head. "It's alright. I think about 'things' as well. I can't stop thinking about them- sometimes I think I'll go insane without this person." Ryou tilted his head to the side a bit. "Who is 'this person' excatly?"
"Se-cret." Chris said in a sing song voice. The car stopped infront of a big building that Ryou didn't remember there being in Domino. "One of my friends work here and I think Kaiba owns it too." Chris got out and opened the door for Ryou. "Let's go have some fun?" Ryou smiled and took Chris's hand as he lead the way into the building.
"Hello, how can I-oh Chris! Hey!" A girl with short, choppy purple hair and purple eyes waved at Chris, he waved back. "How are you? Who's the cutie?" The girl winked at Ryou as he blushed. Chris chuckled. "Hey Katina, I'm doing okay. I'd like you to meet Ryou, my date."
"Hello." Ryou sqweaked. Katina bit her lip and squealed. "He's so adorable! This is the 'person' you were talking about the other day?" Katina made air qoutes with her fingers at the word person. Chris blushed and shook his head no. "It's someone else."
"Ah, well...Let's get started then?" Katina opened a door to, what Ryou guessed, the backyard of the building. Poor grass as far as the eye can see and hay stacks everywhere. Katina gave Ryou and Chris a pair of goggles, helmets and a bullet vest. Then she came back from inside the building and handed them guns. Ryou questioned at that point.
"Hahaha! It's paintball silly! Chris didn't tell you?" Katina laughed. "I wanted to see the reaction on his face." Chris admitted. Ryou sighed. "I don't really like running around..."
"Alright then. You can just shoot at me as I run around, how about that?" Chris gave his paintball gun back to Katina when Ryou nodded. Ryou held up his gun to make eye level as Chris started to run around. He stuck out his peirced tongue and said, "How much do you wanna bet you can hit me?"
"If I hit you more than three times then you tell me who this 'person' is you were talking about." Ryou yelled back, smirking. He knew he was good shooter, Joey had taught him very well and so has Seto. 'Over protective friends, yes. But they're sweet.'
"And if you don't hit me more than three?"
"You get whatever you want."
"Whatever I want...?"
"Except anything perverted."
"Awww! Fine! What are we waiting fo-oof." Ryou had already shot once and aimed at Chris' stomach. Chris started to run around trying to get Ryou off guard and hiding behind hay stacks.
By the end of the day, Ryou had only hit Chris twice, once on the stomach and once on the leg. When Katina came out to tell them she was closing up, Ryou shot the last two paintballs at Chris and hit the back of his head. "WOO!" Ryou yelped. Chris rubbed the back of his head. "Wow, that hurt!"
"Well, of course it hurts smartass! You're getting hit by a paintball that's being shot almost as fast as a bullet!" Katina giggled and took the protective wear from the two. "I don't know about you but I'm starving! Let's head for some dinner?"
Ryou slightly winced. He didn't feel like eating and he certainly did NOT want Chris to know about his 'sickness'. But Ryou figured he could manage, so he nodded.
Chris pulled over to a nice italian resturant. 'What the? And italian resturant in Japan? How is it that Chris knows places in Domino that I don't know?' Ryou's thoughts were cut short when he entered the resturant. The scene was a beauty. Fountains in the middle of the room, candles on each table, red and khaki colors everywhere, the walls made of mirrors and the lights dim.
"Romantic.."
"Isn't it though?" Chris chuckled and asked the waiter for a two seat table and a couple of sodas. They started to talk about random things. They laughed, they shared sob stories, they threw fries at each other. Basically they had fun.
"Hey! I just remembered our little bet..." Chris frowned. "I'm still not so ready. I've never actually admitted this to any- Oh gods." Chris looked past Ryou with wide eyes. "What is it?"
"They're here." Ryou knew what Chris meant. 'The person he likes...' Ryou turned in his seat to see them and was a bit shocked to see Kisit and Eric walking thru the doors. Kisit looked uneasy, not her normal cheerful, bouncing self. Eric looked uncomfortable too. They were lead to a table where the waiter took their orders and after that, there seemed to be a silence.
Chris shook his head, to get it cleared, and looked back at Ryou. "We should leave, CHECK!" The waiter quickly came, Chris paid, and they were off. But before they left, Ryou picked up on the conversation that was just started between Kisit and Eric.
"Um listen, Kisit. You've probably noticed this but I-"
"Yeah, I've noticed. I don't under stand it though, why...-that- person?" Eric sighed. "Because, I just love'em." Kisit looked disgusted. (A/n: I think it's pretty obvious now). "So we're breaking up then?" Kisit asked, to which Eric nodded slowly. She got up quickly from her chair and ran crying out the exit, pushing Chris and Ryou out of the way without noticing them.
Chris was to lost in his own world, so he just ignored the push and kept walking. Ryou followed him soon after taking one last look at Eric. The blond holding his head, like he had a headache- which mostly likely he DID have.
Before Ryou knew it, they were at the park. "Why'd you lead me here?" Ryou asked.
"This is where I found out." Chris said mindlessly.
"Found out what?" Ryou had taken a seat on the edge of a fountain and Chris sat right next to him. Ryou stared at Chris while Chris stared at the water, tracing circles with his finger in the water. "That I'm in love." Ryou frowned.
"Are you going to tell me who you fell in love with or do I have to poke it out of you?"
"Poke it...out of me?" Chris chuckled, looking up at Ryou. Ryou looked serious, raising his index finger and jabbed the very base of his throat. Chris coughed out and 'ow' and rubbed his chest. "That hurt, damn it!"
"Tell me or I'll do it again." Without warning, Ryou jabbed the throat again. Chris grabbed Ryou's hand. "Alright alright! Geez!"
"Tell me..."
"Wait! I'm not ready to let out such a thing yet!"
"You told me you found out here in the park, that couldn't be more than a month ago." Ryou dropped his hand. Chris sighed. "Well, I was denying it for so long, but it just hit me really hard...in more sense than one." Chris rubbed the back of his head.
"Alright then, tell me when you can right now." Chris nodded and sighed. A few moments then Chris looked straight at Ryou, at which the white haired boy straighten up.
"Eric."
Ryou visibly was taken aback. "Nani?"
Chris smirked. "Eric, the guy I like...DUH!"
"Nooo, not 'duh'! BAKA! IT WASN'T THAT OBVIOUS!"
"Of course it was, you were just to busy thinking about Bakura to even care."
"Did I hear my name?"
"Ack!"
"What the fu-!"
Ryou almost fell in the fountain, while Chris took his fighting pose. Infront of them stood the one and only Bakura- without the one cent whore, thank Ra. Bakura smirked and looked over Ryou, who placed his sweaty palms in his jeans pocket, then at Chris. "May I take him off your hands for a moment? I need to speak with him."
Without an answer, Bakura pushed Chris aside and walked up to Ryou. Ryou had just began to hyperventilate and sweat once Bakura was standing right there, infront of him, looking down one him. Ryou felt so small. He could smell alcohol come off Bakura. One look at Bakura's face, you could tell he was drunk.
"Ryou," Bakura lip curled up at disgust; weather it'd be disgust from standing so close to Ryou or disgust at what he was about to say- no one could tell.
Ryou stared into blood red eyes and eyed over the messy white hair. Bakura looked like he hadn't slept in weeks. "Y-ye-"
Chris and Ryou's eyes widened. Ryou reached up to his cheek and pulled back his hand to stare. He couldn't believe that with only a slap, his cheek could bleed so much. The he noticed, the tiny hand knife in Bakura's hand. Ryou looked up at Bakura's eyes, only to see his darkened face.
"I hate you, fag." Bakura snarled.
Chris growled and took one step toward Bakura before being stopped by Ryou's sob. "Ry-"
"FUCK!" Ryou clenched his fist, rubbing his eyes and ran the other way. Ryou had very bad luck with keeping notes in his pockets, so the note he had earlier with Yugi in the class fell out without him knowing. Chris was about ready to pounce on Bakura.
"WHY DID YOU FUCKING DO THAT IDIOT?" Chris didn't give a damn if he got an answer or not, he ran after Ryou in a heartbeat and took out his cellphone to call Joey and Seto.
Bakura's face was still darkened. He was in the killer mood at this point, so he closed his eyes. Breathed in and out slowly for 10 seconds and opened his eyes again. He let the hand knife fall to the floor as he went to pick up the note Ryou left behind. One line caught his eye though
Yami had told me. About the slits-Y
'Slits? That couldn't possibl-Shit.' Bakura thought back at when he was staring over Ryou just now. Even though it was a little dark, his eyes still caught sight of the red, swollen scars on Ryou's arms. They hadn't been on the wrist, 'So that means he doesn't want to die, just wants to feel pain? Who'd want- again, shit.' Bakura was so close to smacking himself. He knew how hurt Ryou must've felt- hell Bakura was about to drink a whole bottle of asprins because of losing Akina he knew how much pain Ryou's been going thru.
"So, I was thinking. I should wear a silver dress instead of the traditional white. What do you think Sexy Baku-koi?"
Bakura felt two arms around his waist and someone behind him. He had no idea what he was doing. Did he really hurt Ryou to marry a slut? To marry some person who had lied to him once? The answer was yes. Bakura's head was so clogged up right now he chose the less bumpy way- to marry his first love. Yet at the same time he felt disgusted with himself. He just now realized that he was holding a hand knife and had sliced Ryou's soft pale cheek.
Xx Ryou's POV xX
Empty...
That's how I feel.
Why did he do that? Why did he slice me? Why did he have to do that?
It wasn't enough. It's never enough.
I don't even know what I mean! My mind is so messed up right now!
Ok..I have to clear it up. Who am I?
Ryou Bakura, the nobody everyone knows. The one who ends up always heartbroken. Always sliced up in one way or another.
Where am I?
At my- At Bakura's house. In the kitchen.
What am I doing?
Cutting myself, isn't that obvious? Do you not see the red liquid falling in tiny drops to the floor? Of course you can't because I'm the nobody. Because if no one loves me, I never exist.
I cleaned the floor before it stained after bandaging up my arm. I "accidentally" nicked my wrist. You know, where the vein is? I hit that general area. Right now, I'm hitting my wrist with the rubber band Joey gave me. It helps, I just wish I would've remembered sooner before cutting. I should get out before Bakura or worse, Akina, find me here.
When I got out, it was raining. Just my luck huh? I like the rain anyway.
Did I just hear my stomach growl? Over the POURING RAIN? And THUNDER!
Crap, this bandage isn't much help! The blood is leaking.
I can barely see anything! I know I'm right at Kaiba's door, about to ring the door bell. But since I can't see I miss the button. My vision is blurry and darkened. Damn it! I'm getting dizzy too.
Light headed, I rang the bell. I could hear the door open and someone shouting my name but that's the last thing I hear before I blank out and hit the floor unconsiously.
Lady Ai: The end is coming! In like three more chapters, wow.
Yami Ai: I love my Kage-koi!
Lady Ai: Thats fan-fucking-tastic for you, you have a boyfriend.
Yami Ai: Oh come on, don't pout! You have a realtionship too. I recall her name being Imi... /smirks/
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