Bandageshipping (Bakura Ryo/Kawai Shizuka/Yami no Bakura)
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Shizuka carefully dabbed at the cut on Ryo's palm, her tongue sticking out slightly as she cleaned it out as carefully as possible.
"You got really cut up," she said, sounding worried. "Are you sure we shouldn't call a hospital?"
Are you sure we shouldn't, landlord?the other him teased at the back of his head.
Ryo forced a smile.
"I'm really fine, Shizuka-san. Thank you for helping me, though...I don't think I could clean and bandage all of these myself."
Shizuka's face scrunched up with worry, but she just continued to carefully wipe out the cuts all along Ryo's arm with her washcloth. She put it down beside her and got out the gauze next, wrapping it firmly around his palm and up his arm, slowly.
For a moment, her mouth opened, but she closed it again. Ryo already knew what she was trying to ask, and he knew that he couldn't answer. She wanted to know what had happened to get his arm all cut up.
He didn't want to tell her it was because the evil spirit possessing his body had done it to him by getting his body into a tussle with a few gang members in an alley. She'd tell Jonouchi when he and the others came over, and they'd know he was wearing the Ring again and everyone would worry. He didn't want that.
Awww, so sweet of you, the dark spirit cooed. Ryo tried to ignore him.
"Thank you for doing this," Ryo said again to Shizuka.
"Of course, Bakura-kun, I'm always here to help," she said. She opened her mouth again—closed it. Then she opened it again. "I-I'm sorry to ask this right out and you don't have to answer if you don't want to, but...but did you do this on purpose, Bakura-kun..."
Ryo tensed a bit, and he could tell that Shizuka noticed his arm tighten. Her lips parted.
"I-I'm sorry. That was rude of me."
"No...you're fine..." He licked his lips. "I didn't do it to myself. I promise. I'm not hurting myself and I don't plan to. Please don't worry."
Shizuka didn't look wholly convinced, but she nodded. She finished wrapping the bandages around his arm. Her hair fell almost over her eyes, and she had to reach up to push it back behind her ears—it was a cute motion, Ryo realized with a soft start. Her hair looked...really pretty. It was a soft shade of red that sort of glowed in the thin light streaming through the blinds.
Her eyes flickered up to him, and she smiled. His heart clenched.
"Thank you," he said again, automatically, for something to say.
Oh~the spirit of the ring said, suddenly sounding interested. Do you find her attractive, landlord? Do you want some tips?
Shut up.
The spirit laughed and it was a chilling sound. Shizuka, who couldn't hear it, simply smiled.
"Of course, it's no trouble," she said. She picked up the wet, bloody rag. "Is there somewhere I should put this?"
"Uh...on the edge of the hamper. Thanks."
Shizuka nodded. She stood up, hair swinging, and turned towards the hamper near the entry of the hallway.
His breath lodged in his throat when he felt the spirit of the ring slipping into control again, locking up his arms and making his eyes move ever so slightly downward so that he was forced to stare right at her rear end moving with her walk—
Do you like looking at her?the spirit cooed, as Ryo struggled to make his eyes look away or somewhere else. I can help you do more than that, landlord. Just say the word. I'm good with the ladies, you know.
Ryo struggled against the sudden barrage of intrusive thoughts that the spirit showered him with—images of himself, grabbing Shizuka by the wrist and twisting her around pushing her up against the wall, leaning in—
"STOP IT!" he shouted in spite of himself.
Immediately, the spirit released him and he felt himself crumple almost falling off the chair. Shizuka whipped around, dropping the rag. Her eyes were wide and her hand leaping to her mouth. She almost ran across the room to Ryo to grab his shoulder and keep him from falling—it took everything he had not to fling her off of him, before the spirit could do something horrible—
"B-Bakura-kun, are you okay? What happened? Did you have s-some kind of panic attack, or flashback? Can I get you anything?"
Ryo just tried to swallow down the shake, and ignore the spirit laughing in his head.
"I'm fine," he said, forcing himself to smile shakily. "H-honestly, Shizuka-san...I'm fine."
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A/N: Well that was a thing that happened. Next is Bakushipping (TKB x Yami Bakura x Ryo).
