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Chapter Three: The Cage

Ryou Bakura woke up a few hours after his orgasm in an embarrassed frenzy. He couldn't believe he had done that! What on Earth had possessed him to actually go through with it? He jumped up from off the bed, intent to jump in the shower and cleanse himself. And then he saw the puddle of spilled lubricant pooled on the bed and the shiny vibrator staring back at him. Blushing, he screwed the lid back on the lube. Almost as if he was touching something radioactive, Ryou picked up the Vibrator. The Shiny Metallic Vibrator. He looked around the room, trying to find a place to put it.

It had to be somewhere obvious, but hidden. An oxymoron, yes, but true. If he put it out in the open, it would hardly be hiding it. And anyone would be able to find it. ...Ryou would rather spare himself the humiliation. And if Ryou hid it anywhere too hidden and complicated- it was like inviting Bakura to find it. The last thing Ryou needed was Bakura to find his shiny, obviously used, Vibrator. Ryou was not going to give Bakura humiliating ammunition to tease him quite so easily.

The doorway to his closet, which was partially open, winked back at him. Everyone knew (everyone being Bakura, as he was the only person who lived with Ryou long enough to know his habits) that Ryou hid away things he didn't use often in the top of his closet. It was out of the way, but not too terribly troublesome to get to. It was so perfectly obvious, that no one would ever think of it. It was perfect. Ryou nearly ran for the closet and threw the Vibrator onto the top shelf. It landed with a dull thud, pillowed by something Ryou had placed up there and forgotten about long ago.

Now that the culprit had been disposed of, it was time for Ryou to deal with the accomplices. He held the bottle of flavored lubricant in his other hand and stared at it blindly, as if it were supposed to tell him where 'time out' was. No, the bottle would not know its place until he put it there. On second thought, perhaps it would be best to store it with the Vibrator. The top shelf of the closet was a place he hardly ever looked. He could forget it was ever there. The lubricant joined the vibrator on the shelf and Ryou nearly slammed the door closed. Out of sight, out of mind.

The messy sheets were still messily strewn across the bed. Ryou couldn't simply through those in the closet as well. They had to be dealt with another way. The sheets couldn't be hidden, and they were expensive enough that Ryou didn't want to throw them out over one small incident. Ryou debated with himself for a moment, trying to decide what to do with them. With a stroke of ingenuity, Ryou realized that the sheets could be washed. Just as he would be, the second he got rid of all the incriminating evidence. He grabbed the sheets and ran to the washing room, not even thinking of his own nakedness. They were thrown into the machine just as roughly as the Vibrator had been thrown into the closet. (An extra half scoop of detergent was added- just in case.)

Once the sheets were taken care of, Ryou ran stark naked into the bathroom and jumped into the shower. The water was icy at first against his skin, but he needed to be clean more than he needed to be warm. Besides, it warmed quickly becoming almost scalding instead. If he could stand it any warmer at all, he would have turned the heat even higher as he scrubbed himself. After nearly twenty minutes of straight washing and re-washing, when he was finally clean, he stood under the still warm spray and thought about what he had done.

Ryou's sudden change of heart when it came to that was the direct response to yet another shift in the Thoughtscape hierarchy. Just as Kink!Ryou had been shoved into power, he had been kicked out of it. Their "creator's" body had been temporarily sated. Curious!Ryou's curiosity was temporarily sated. Hell, even Kink!Ryou himself had been temporarily sated. Shy!Ryou on the other hand, was mortified. And Virgin!Ryou? Virgin!Ryou was positively furious.

The second Thoughtscape wasn't drenched in the physical pleasure Ryou had experienced, Virgin!Ryou ripped the metaphorical crown right off Kink!Ryou's head. Control was his, and he was going to insure it stayed his. "Shy!Ryou, I need you to do me a favor…"

Kink!Ryou woke slowly, luxuriating in the remnants of pleasure tingling through his body. The bed was much firmer than he remembered, hard beneath him. He rolled over, trying to get even more comfortable. It was icy. Icy enough to wake Kink!Ryou completely, causing him to jolt up. He wasn't in bed at all! The hard coldness was a metal floor, Kink!Ryou's reflection staring back at him. The metallic surface was about ten feet by ten feet, lined with poles six inches apart. It wasn't until he saw the door, secured with a padlock that he knew. Those weren't poles… they were bars. This was a cage. A shiny, cold, metal cage. And it was locked.

Kink!Ryou did what anyone stuck in a cage would do. Jumping up, he grabbed the bars on the door, trying to shake them open. "Let me out!" He screamed. He didn't even know how he got there. Or why.

Kink!Ryou's screams had piqued Curious!Ryou's curiosity. Kink!Ryou could see him, peaking around a corner. Cook!Ryou had also come over, to investigate. "Good Lord," Cook!Ryou mumbled to himself, cleaning his hands on his apron. What was Virgin!Ryou up to now? He thought, they had finally begun to calm down…

"Let me out of here!" Kink!Ryou demanded, putting all the authority he could muster in his voice.

"Are you going to behave yourself?" Cook!Ryou asked, only half sarcastic.

"If you think having Ryou masturbate is misbehaving, then no." Kink!Ryou pouted.

Cook!Ryou's eyes widened. That had certainly been an order, but he felt no obligation to follow and Kink!Ryou had immediately answered his inquiry. He had power over Kink!Ryou, and Ryou wasn't even near the kitchen! How that happened, Cook!Ryou had no idea. He was fairly certain, however, that Kink!Ryou had lost a fair amount of power. Perhaps permanently. "Stop fighting with Virgin!Ryou and I'll let you out." Cook!Ryou told him.

"Why don't you stop cooking." Kink!Ryou retorted snidely.

Cook!Ryou frowned thoughtfully. Perhaps it was a bit much to ask Kink!Ryou to not argue with Virgin!Ryou at all. His purpose was to indulge in sex. Virgin!Ryou's purpose was chastity. The two did conflict. Not all of their fights were Kink!Ryou's fault.

"Promise me you'll tone it down?" Cook!Ryou asked calmly. As long as their disputes didn't threaten to destroy Thoughtscape and ruin Ryou utterly, Cook!Ryou could handle the two of them going head to head every once in a while.

"Sure." Kink!Ryou agreed sulkily, but even he had to admit there was more to Ryou's life than just masturbation. He just didn't see why Ryou had to forgo it entirely as Virgin!Ryou insisted.

Cook!Ryou smiled brightly. Perhaps they could all find a way to live in peace. Kink!Ryou would keep his word- he might be sneaky but he wasn't a liar. He grabbed a hairpin from his hair (all the Ryou's kept atleast a few in case of emergencies) and begin to pick the lock with it. He frowned a bit. The lock was a pretty high quality. He recognized this work. It was Bitter!Ryou. He had a habit of building things- apparently it kept the loneliness away. Bitter!Ryou had gotten quite good at it over the years. Cook!Ryou was having quite a bit of trouble breaking Kink!Ryou out.

"Stop. He stays in there." Virgin!Ryou demanded. When he had got there, neither Kink!Ryou nor Cook!Ryou knew. Cook!Ryou froze in his steps. Even though Cook!Ryou held some authority over Kink!Ryou, he was nowhere near Virgin!Ryou's power. Such a shame, since he had just gotten Kink!Ryou to agree to behave.

"You can't keep me in here!" Kink!Ryou protested.

"I can try." Virgin!Ryou told him calmly. He might not be able to keep him in there forever, but if he could atleast keep him away long enough for Ryou to find someone special to do that sort of stuff with. He wouldn't be around forever, he would protect Ryou for as long as he could. And Kink!Ryou wasn't going to stop him.