Journey maker- Oops, sorry it took so long

ChaosMyotismon- Yay! I'm glad you like it even if it isn't your pairing, that means I must be doing something right I can't help it Seto's just so hot and Ryou's just to cute!


A Cruel World

Chapter Three

"Damn Ra," Bakura growls, throwing another beer bottle at the wall, watching it shatter, why couldn't he find Ryou? It's been over a week, and to say he missed the hikari was an understatement. He's searched everywhere for his hikari, even his so called 'friends' don't know where he is, and no matter how hard he tries he can't get into the hikari's mind, he can't even sense the boy, making it obvious that he's not wearing the ring, only angering Bakura more. Bakura has grown a deep pain inside his chest when he had lost Ryou. /When I find you, you're gonna pay Hikari of mine/ Bakura thinks, as if he still had the mental link with Ryou. Rrring, Bakura jumps to his feet at the sound, running towards the phone, he picks it up at the second ring.

"Yeah?" He asks in an uncaring matter hoping it's Ryou, he knows Ryou will come back, the boy's to stupid to run away, it's a fluke, he got lost, he tells himself the same thing sense Ryou's disappearance.

"Hey, I got some good news!" Bakura is disappointed when he hears Marik on the line, yet intrigued by this 'good news'.

"Spill it already," Bakura all but growls, maybe it's about Ryou! Bakura mentally scolds himself for the thought, why can' t he stop thinking of Ryou. Bakura remembers Ryou's smooth porcelain skin, deep chocolate ey-

"The pharaoh's in the hospital!" Marik interrupts Bakura's thoughts. "Him and the pip squeak got jumped, the idiot saved the little brat and got his ass kicked, hah, duel monsters can't save him from everything!" There's a long silence about. "Well that's all I had to say, you find Ryou yet?"

"No," It was a simple answer, Bakura not having much to say of the subject, especially to Marik. Bakura didn't have a problem with Marik, on the contrary they're good friends, but Bakura knows of Marik's crush on Ryou, and he saw the almost relieved expression on Marik's face when he heard of Ryou's disappearance. Ryou is defiantly not a topic he wants to have with his psychotic partner in crime. Again there is a silence to long for Bakura's liking so he simply hangs up. Rrrring. Rrrring. Rrring. Bakura walks away, sure that it's just Marik calling to yell about him hanging up.

"This is Ryou, sorry I can't come to the phone right now, please leave a message," The answering machine picks up. "H-hello," Bakura freezes at that voice, Ryou!! "I'mjustcallingtosaybye!" Bakura runs to the phone, picking it up.

"Hello, hello!" But it's to late, all he hears is the dial tone. What would I have said if I did answer the phone? Bakura rewinds the answering machine.

"H-hello... I'mjustcallingtosaybye!" Bakura takes a second to un-jumble his hikari's words. I'm just calling to say bye, Bakura feels a burning sensation where his heart should lie, he falls to his knees, an unknown pain spreading through him like a virus.

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Ryou hangs up the phone, he can't believe he did it, he really did it. He is relieved the yami didn't answer, he purposely called this early in the morning just for that effect, but still the shock that he did it is overcoming such fear in him. He stares at the phone at his bed side table, debating whether he should call Yugi or not. He picks up the phone, but almost immediately put's it down, finally deciding against it, for the time being anyways. A knock startles the young albino, and the door slowly, cautiously opens revealing none other than Seto Kaiba. Ryou gives him an uncertain smile, clutching the sheets tighter to his unclad body.

"Good afternoon Kaiba-kun, I-I," Ryou looks down, his face beet red in embarrassment.

"I told you before, it's just Kaiba," his voice is again emotionless, disregarding the worry he has for the boy. "I had a servant buy you some new clothes," he puts some neatly folded clothes on the a dresser, having picked the clothes himself, " no need to thank me." He quickly adds when Ryou opens his mouth to thank him.

"Y-You're wrong, I do- I do need to thank you, you did so much for me, thank you so, so much, Kaiba," Ryou smiles up at him, eyes glazed with unshed tears. Kaiba grinds his teeth not knowing what to say, he hates when he is at loss of words, he takes a deep breath, keeping his emotionless exterior.

"For you, anytime," with that he leaves before Ryou can question the statement.

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As soon as his bedroom door is closed Kaiba falls back on it, his heart pumping, unable to believe he said that. He slides down to the floor, what will Ryou make of it? A smirk then comes to his flawless face, he's to innocent to get it.

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Minutes have passed and Ryou still finds himself staring at the door dumbfounded. Finally he shakes out of it, literally shaking it off, his white mane sticking up in even odder places than before from the mass bed head. He didn't mean anything by it, Ryou assures himself. He moves his legs over the bed edge, feet placed on the warm, carpeted floor. Using his arms he helps push himself to his feet, as soon as he is he leans against the wall, already feeling exhausted. He slowly takes a shaky step, then another, using the wall to hold his weak form from crashing to the ground. A door flashes in front of his eyes, his front door, a shiver creeps up his spine and he shakes the thought from his mind, wanting to forget that night completely.

"I-It's over," he says simply to reassure himself, but his voice is unconfident, leaving him feeling it untrue, and a part of him knows that it's not over, that it would never be over. Ryou falls to his knees at the thought, sobs shaking his weakened body, he'll hunt me down just to punish me, just to watch me suffer. Ryou just cries out his agony.

"O-oh my," a maid walks in on him in this state, Ryou is to saddened to be embarrassed by his nakedness, as he usually would be. No, he just continues his sobs. "Mr. Kaiba!! Mr. Kaiba!" She calls, running from the scene.


Poor Ryou, I feel bad for that, I really do, damn imagination, I'm a horrible person. :-(