Hi everyone, Oh some one asked a little bit back, if Seto and Gozaburo are related, the answer is no, sorry for not getting back to you on that, and I hope this has helped anyone else out as well.

Disclaimer: I don't own Yugioh

Warnings: Yaoi, M.

CHAP 11: Trouble Called Ryou

Ryou was slowly waking and started to purr at the warmth that he was surrounded in, and more importantly what was lying next to him… He opened his eyes slowly and frowned at seeing the wall. This wasn't right, he then rolled over to find... "Malik?" Ryou sat up and looked around he wasn't in the room, Ryou pouted and his ears fell back against his head as he threw off the blankets and walked into the kitchen and living room rubbing his eyes. "Malik?" Ryou called out again and still no Malik, he walked to the… bathroom… he pushed open the door slowly. "Malik?" He got no answer.

Ryou walked back into the living room and sat down, were was he, Ryou took in a deep breath and Malik's scent was still strong in the room so he hadn't left to long ago, but why did he leave and not take him? Ryou sat up and looked at the front door his ears pricked forward, the door opened and Malik walked in. Ryou jumped to his feet and ran at him, tackling him in a hug. "Hey!" Malik grunted as his back hit the door, Ryou nuzzled into his chest.

"You were gone." Ryou looked up with tears in his eyes.

"Just to make sure we could have hot water." Malik patted his head. "I wouldn't leave you like that." Malik hugged him back. "So you don't have to worry about it." Malik looked at the clock half past six, am. "Well it's time to get ready." Malik said as Ryou nodded his head.

Malik took Ryou into the bathroom. "You need to wash." Malik said, as he turned on the taps and filled the bath. Ryou hissed at seeing the water. "Ryou!" Malik said sternly he didn't like it when Ryou did that. Ryou's ears flattened he hated when Malik spoke like that to him.

"You've been in this before, no games today." He said sternly as he stood and looked at Ryou. Who bit his lip then nodded his head. Ryou climbed in sitting in the warm water. Malik knelt down next to the tub. He wet Ryou's hair and put in the shampoo, rinsed it out then put in the conditioner. Ryou purred as Malik rubbed his head, then rinsed it out again. "There, all done." Malik said getting up helping Ryou to stand up and passed him a towel trying not to look. Ryou dried himself. Once he was done and Ryou was dry, Malik got into the shower himself and left Ryou to get dressed.

After a while Malik and Ryou stood at the front door. "Are you sure you'll be okay?" Malik asked and Ryou nodded his head.

"Look both ways before crossing the street, and when the man is green." Ryou smiled, putting on his black hat, his hair was brushed and he never smelt so good before as his hair smelt like coconuts, and Malik put a spray on him, Ryou didn't like it to much and sneezed for five minutes after.

"Okay." Malik straighten Ryou's dark blue shirt, as Malik was in his school uniform. "Now you know what to do?" Malik asked, as he picked up his bag.

"I wait for you, before you go." Ryou said, and Malik laughed.

"Try again." He patted Ryou on the head. "You're to wait for me after work." Malik smiled, Ryou nodded his head as he fixed Malik's shirt by running his hands over Malik's shoulders and chest straightening out any wrinkles. "What do you say if someone asks where are you from?"

"From England. Staying with Malik as I'm a long time fan, who I'm sleeping with." Ryou finished, Malik laughed and shook his head; he cupped Ryou's cheek getting his full attention, and locked eyes with him.

"I'm from England and I'm visiting a friend, who I'm staying with at the moment. Alright?" Ryou had a slight English accent in his voice so it was easier for him to pick a place where Ryou might have lived if he wasn't...

"I think I have it." Ryou smiled, Malik let go and stood up straight, Ryou took a step forward flush against Malik in a hug and purred as he nuzzled into his chest and Malik wrapped his arms around him.

"Fishing for your morning cuddle?" Malik smiled as he rested his chin on top of Ryou's head, who nodded his head and closed his eyes.

"Alright." Malik said and Ryou let go with a pout. "We're both going to be late." They both walked out of the apartment.

They stopped by Yugi's place. Rebecca ran up to them in her school uniform a maroon skirt and jacket with a white shirt. "Have something for Ryou." She said holding up a hair band with clips on it.

"Ryou's not playing dress up right now, we're going to school." Yugi said.

"No silly it's for his ears." She stated as if it was the obvious thing on the planet. "Boys?" She rolled her blue eyes. "I'll have to show you." She pushed them all inside. She made Ryou sit down so she could reach his head and ears. Rebecca held up the headband and pointed to the clips. "I put rubber in them so they don't bite his ears and hurt him." She placed it on his head and gently bent his ears down flat and clipped them down. "Then just cover it with his hair." She moved pieces of his hair around a little. "And we have a cat to instant boy in seconds." She waved her hand over Ryou's head.

"This is great." Malik lent down. "You can't even see them." He looked at Ryou who was just sitting there. "Does it hurt at all?"

"No." Ryou said.

"This is really good you won't have to explain that he has to wear a hat all the time." Yugi said looking as well.

"See, I'm a child genius." She hugged Ryou. "We'll play later." With that she was gone like the wind.

The three stopped by Marik's house as Bakura was there as well, and the small group walked together to school. But Ryou stopped in the middle of the walkway at seeing a couple kissing with their... mouths. He stared and blinked then touched his own lips with confusion. But he made Malik stop as well and like a chain reaction everyone else stopped walking. "What are they doing?" Ryou asked as he pointed to the boy and girl.

"Kissing?" Malik said not taking any real notice, as the couple hugged each other and walked off hand in hand.

"Why do they do that?" Ryou asked looking at Malik. Marik and Bakura found it veryamusing.

"Yeah Malik why do they do that?" Marik grinned as Bakura snickered.

"Grow up!" Malik growled at him then turned to Ryou. "It's because they like each other, or they're in love, it's a show of affection how they feel about each other." Malik then started to walk again, Ryou was still confused.

"And it's not just with boys and girls." Marik said grabbing Bakura's hand.

"Stop it you'll confuse him." Malik hissed, Ryou made a sound and tilted his to the side.

"Not just boys and girls?" Ryou asked still confused he had just found that there were girls in the world and short people known as kids and now there was kissing?

"Holy shit he doesn't even know about the basics?" Bakura said dumfounded. "Here I'll show you." Bakura grabbed Ryou and pulled him close, he squeaked and went wide-eyed as Bakura lent in and was about to kiss him. Malik narrowed his eyes and growled was it jealously? He didn't care, he walked up and hit Bakura up side the head and pulled Ryou away.

"Leave him alone." Malik growled at him.

"But anyway, it's done with boys and girls if you want to reproduces later." Marik said stepping around Bakura and putting an arm around Ryou. "You either just like girls, or you like just boys, or you like both, like little Yugi here." He pointed to the said teen.

"Shut up!" Yugi growled over his shoulder at the two, who laughed again and Malik rolled his eyes.

"So do you like boys or girls?" Bakura asked on the other side of Malik.

"I like Malik." Ryou said innocently, Malik stopped walking, as did every one else and the silence… well lets just say you could hear the crickets chirp.

"… He likes you Malik." Marik smirked like a mad man, breaking the quiet atmosphere. "See I told you." He snickered again.

"He doesn't even know what you're talking about." Malik started to walk again taking Ryou with him missing the hurt look in Ryou's eyes. Bakura and Marik caught up and fell into step beside them.

"Don't be like that, we'll have to teach him." Marik said, the smirk never leaving his lips and had been there the whole time. Malik stopped again and turned to them.

"I don't need you two teaching him anything, because by the end of it he'll think having sex in an empty classroom and janitors closet is the right thing to do." Malik once again started to walk making Ryou follow.

"Sex?" Ryou said.

"Don't you say that!" Malik looked at him and Ryou nodded his head as he slipped his hand into Malik's hand.

"You didn't complain." Bakura smirked, and Marik chuckled.

"I had no choice..." He sighed, the two had ambushed him in between classes and pushed him into a class room, well by the time they finished teasing him he couldn't say no. "Anyway lay off the talk, he looks confused enough." Malik pointed out.

Malik dropped Ryou off at his work "Now you know the way home?" Ryou nodded his head. "Good I'll see you after." Ryou gave Malik a hug. "And don't talk to any strangers okay, go right home." Malik stepped back letting Ryou go, he nodded and ran inside.

It was about lunchtime, when Serenity let Ryou go, she closed up the shop. Ryou looked up and down the street Malik was meant to pick him up, but that wouldn't be for a while, he bit his lip thinking on what would be the best thing to do? Go home and wait for Malik… But Ryou missed him now, and didn't want to wait until later to see him.

The shadows beside the shops and people moved and ran to his feet and spiked turning his own shadow darker on the path in front of him. Ryou's eyes turned clear blue and he smirked, and followed it through town. It wasn't to long when Ryou came up to a large building. He walked up and pushed open the doors and stepped in, teens walked about everywhere, talking, some of them shouting, things flying through the air. He sniffed the air and was assaulted with all kinds of odours; one he knew was sweat there was a sweet smell like Serenity and a few others. He moved down the hall around teens getting knocked about as he made his way through them.

He stopped at a door and opened it and looked in, to find a room full of students. "Can I help you?" The man at the front of the room looked at him, Ryou scanned the room not finding what he wanted, and he walked back out. He turned down the next hallway, he stopped he could now smell Malik faintly and was now trackable. He sniffed the air and continued to walk down the hall. He pushed open a door and walked into a large room full of more students and the smell of food. He closed his eyes for a minute then opened them Malik wasn't in here either.

Ryou pouted and rubbed the back of his neck, where was Malik? Before Ryou knew it he ended up on the floor, he pushed himself up and looked to see another teen standing there over him. "Watch were your going?" He snapped, the whole room fell silent and turned to see what was happing. "Say you're sorry and I might let you go." He smirked, Ryou pushed himself up but a foot pushed him back down to the ground. "I didn't here you?" He mocked by putting a hand to his ear, Ryou growled.

"Leave the kid alone Ushio!" Some one called out from the group of teens.

"Shut up! You all know the rules about running into me." He yelled at them, but stumbled back as Ryou pushed his foot back and got up, Ushio gasped in surprise. Ryou not wanting to talk to strangers, as Malik had told him not too, went to walk away. "Get back here!" He grabbed Ryou by the back of his shirt and pulled him back. "You're not leaving until I tell ya you can." He grinned Ryou looked up at him and growled.

"Don't!" Ryou hissed at him.

"What are you going to do if I don't?" He lifted Ryou up off his feet and brought him up nose to nose, Ryou grinned again showing off his sharp fangs, Ushio hands were ripped from Ryou's top, Ryou landed back on his feet. "What?" Ushio gasped, Ryou narrowed his eyes at him, Ushio then was thrown a few feet back landing on a table breaking it, the room was filled with gasps and shocked calls of what had just happened. Ryou walked up to him calmly as he was getting up, Ryou put his foot on his chest to hold him down.

"Say you're sorry and I might let you go." Ryou put more pressure on his chest with his foot, Ushio grabbed Ryou's foot and twisted it, and Ryou cried out and ended up on the floor.

"I apologise to no one." He got up, but Ryou was on his feet before him and stepped back growling as Ushio lunged at him, Ryou moved to the side and students jumped out of the way as Ushio was pushed forward by an unseen force, head first into another table.

"I've had enough." Ryou turned and walked away, but as he neared the doors he was roughly pushed into the wall, a larger body pinning him in place, Ryou cried out by the force as he twisted Ryou's wrist.

"Where are you going?" He growled, but gasped as he was pulled off Ryou and landed on the floor. Marik and Bakura were looking down at him.

"Ryou are you alright?" Malik looked him over, running his hands over his head, shoulders and arms, then pulled him into a hug.

Everyone jumped as Ryou started to cry. "He hurt my hand." Ryou held it up tears running down his face. Malik growled narrowing his eyes at the larger teen being held down by Bakura and Marik's foot.

"I think a little lesson needs to be learnt here, don't you think Ushio?" Marik smirked.

"About picking on those smaller than you." Bakura added.

"But he…" He was grabbed and dragged out, everyone in the room pushed their way out to see what was going to happen to the school bully.

"Come on." Malik took Ryou out and down the hallway to the bathrooms, he locked the door and walked over to the sink and placed Ryou on it and grabbed a paper towel and wet it. "What are you doing here?" Malik asked as he wiped the tears away.

"I wanted to see you." Ryou bit his lip, Malik raised an eyebrow locking gazes with him, and he sighed.

"What am I going to do with you?" He smirked as Ryou got a worried look. "You knew that I was coming to get you…" He stopped and asked again. "Why are you here?"

"Serenity let me go, she had things to do." Ryou sniffled; Malik lifted his chin for a better look. "He didn't hurt you to badly did he?" Malik asked.

"No, he was scary." Ryou added. "Mean too."

"He is, you're not the first." Malik smiled. "There you feel better now?" He asked, Ryou shook his head and lent in a little and licked Malik on the cheek, Malik stopped him by holding his chin and pressed his lips to Ryou's, who gasped. Malik pulled back and licked his lips, Ryou purred and touched his own lips.

"Kissing?" Ryou said with a smile, Malik smirked but the door handle jiggled and someone banging on it from the other side.

"Come on." Malik helped him down and walked to the door, the small group stepped aside and let Malik and Ryou go through.

Malik found the others, the bell rang out and everyone moved inside. "Ryou go home and wait for me." Malik said as the others walked off, Ryou looked depressed and grabbed onto Malik's hand.

"I want to stay with you."

"You can't right now, I'll see you after we'll have all afternoon together." Malik kissed his cheek. "Go home." Malik turned and walked towards the building.

Ryou made that sound again and Malik stopped in his tracks and looked at him, he did it again and Malik felt like a jerk trying to send him away. "Go home Ryou, I'll see you in a few hours." Malik walked backwards, and then turned and vanished through the doors.

Ryou slumped himself on the ground where he was and pouted pulling out the grass. "Hours, hours." He mumbled to himself, he didn't want to leave; he was going to wait for Malik here. Ryou looked up at the big tree, he smirked got up and walked to it he jumped up from branch to branch to almost the top, he laid down his back to the trunk and his legs hung over the sides and dangled, and he waited.

A bell rang out and noise could be heard, Ryou jumped and almost fell out hanging upside down he smirked. "Malik." Ryou watched as teens walked out of the door in groups talking, yelling, laughing all could be heard. Ryou jumped down to his feet scaring a few teens, then walked to the building.

Ryou walked through moving around the students that lingered in the hallways waiting for friends. He sniffed the air and couldn't pick up on Malik anywhere he made it to the doors that he had come through earlier that day. Ryou spotted Malik walking down the road with the others, Ryou started to run to catch up to them.

"Yugi I think I'm going to take a little time off for a few days." Malik said.

"That's okay, I wanted to spent more time with grandpa anyway." Yugi said.

"Tell the truth Yugi." Marik waved a finger at the teen.

"What? I am." Yugi said, but Bakura lent on him grinning like the cheshire cat.

"You met someone." Marik added.

"No I didn't." Yugi growled.

"Yeah you did, he's from out of the country too, so I heard." Bakura said.

"Don't you mean spying?" Yugi added as he moved out of their reach, the two loved to torment Yugi any chance they could get, but it was all in fun.

"Not at all, we wouldn't do anything like that." Marik pretended to be offended. They walked into the park, all of a sudden Ryou swung in front of them upside down. They all yelped out and jumped back, Ryou giggled and smirked his fangs showing in his mischief.

"Ryou!" Malik walked up to him, Ryou licked his cheek. "Ryou what are you doing?" Malik said trying to get him down, but Ryou moved out of his way.

"What's he doing here?" Marik asked. "I thought you sent him home."

"I did." Malik sighed.

"You know cats have their own mind." Marik said.

"Now you tell me." Malik got Ryou down, but his arm was grabbed onto and pulled.

"Come play with me Malik." Ryou laughed, Malik smirked and followed him with the others. It was Yugi that joined Ryou on the play equipment along with other kids.

Malik, Marik and Bakura sat by and watched, Malik had been on it, but grew tired and sat with the two. "Catch it!" A little girl cried out as she threw her ball, it flew past Ryou, who bounced after it. Ryou picked it up and straightened up and looked to where Malik was sitting, and saw none other than Mokuba.

"Hey!" Came a voice that was like nails on a chalkboard for Ryou. Who just growled and slowly walked over listening in the whole time. Ryou was beyond angry, his nails dug into the ball. They talked Mokuba hugged Malik a little to long for Ryou's liking, he jumped as the ball popped in his hands, Mokuba walked off.

"My ball!" The little girl cried, Ryou snarled and shoved it into the girl's hands on his way past almost knocking her over. He jumped up a tree and jumped from branch to branch, until he hovered over the path and Mokuba walked under him, Ryou narrowed his clear blue eyes, the shadows moved and grabbed onto the boy and slammed him to a tree, Ryou swung down and walked up to him eyes locked with each other.

"You." Ryou growled as he stopped almost nose to nose.

"What do you want?" Mokuba struggled to get free.

"Stay away from what's mine." Ryou hissed, sounding very much like a neko.

"What?" Mokuba said.

"Malik. Malik's mine. Not yours." Ryou growled the sound was deep in his chest.

"Jealous are we?" Mokuba smirked but winced as everything around him tightened, but it loosened and he fell to the ground, as Ryou looked around and sniffed the air.

"We'll pick this up later." Ryou ran off.

"Ryou!" Malik called out as he stood up, only to be knocked down as Ryou jumped him purring. "There you are." Malik laughed. "We're leaving, a storm is coming?" He pointed up to the sky, Ryou looked up he had known about the storm earlier that day.

TBC

The site isn't letting me put up the lines that I normally do I hope it wasn't confusing for you. On another note R&R people, and you get to see what happens next.