It's been a while since I posted so here you go enjoy.

Warning: Yaoi, M for the safe side of things.

Do not own Yugioh

Chap 13: Battle of the Numbers

Ryou purred and tried to move closer to the warmth that was wrapped around him, as the annoying sound from the alarm clock rang out, Ryou's ears flattened back against his head as a body lent over him and a arm reached out and silenced it. "It's to early." Malik moved back down in the bed and pulled Ryou to him. "Make time stop for a few more hours." Ryou opened his eyes and blinked.

"What?"

"Nothing." Malik kissed him on the cheek as he got up. "Come on we're going to be late."

"Are we walking together?" Ryou asked as he sat up.

"Not this morning, I have to stop by the track and meet the new team that's coming in." Malik walked to the door looking over his shoulder to see Ryou getting up.

Malik made a quick breakfast and ate then got ready, they both soon stood at the door. "Now, this is your key to get in." Malik held it up showing Ryou who reached out to take it, but Malik pulled it back with a playful smirk at Ryou's pout. "Don't lose it, keep it on you and don't give it to anyone." Malik then handed it to him. "I'll be home a little later then you." Ryou nodded his head; Malik lifted his chin and said. "Are you going to be okay? I can walk you if you like?" Ryou shook his head.

"I'll be fine." Ryou smiled as he lent up for a kiss, Malik chuckled as he kissed him then went over the street rules, strangers, to go right there and come right home again.

"Bye." Malik was out the door, and soon after Ryou got ready, did what Malik had shown him. He brushed his hair and teeth, pinning his ears back then left the apartment soon after. He looked at the shops on his way, and the people that passed him, he sighed he hated to be away from Malik like this but if it were to help him out then he would do it.

Ryou walked down the street, watching everyone that was around him he stopped at the lights and waited, just before he was about to cross, he stopped and looked around a feeling ran through his body and he couldn't suppress the growl that came getting looks from a few people around him, whatever it was it was close and watching every movement he made. He could feel it and to make things worse was that he had no cover what so ever. He wanted to run somewhere safe and scan his surroundings but there wasn't any around.

Ryou started to run dodging people and the few cars that had to brake and honking their horns at him, one car Ryou jumped on, getting abuse from the driver as he ran right over the top of it. Ryou kept going; it was following him almost right on him. He slid on his feet to a stop and was standing right outside an alleyway, he ran in and jumped on the fire escape ladder on the side of an apartment building and jumped up, and climbed his way to the top of the building.

Now that he was on the roof he walked to the edge and looked around getting a birds eye view of the city, people below walking around cars in the street. He narrowed his eyes and scanned the other rooftops, where was it? His eyes turned clear blue and the iris thinned, and the shadows moved towards him. "Find it!" Was all he hissed something came at him he jumped out of the way as a clawed hand swung at him.

"482!" Ryou growled and his fangs lengthened along with his own claws, he hated to be called that he had a name. He looked around he still couldn't see what had attacked him.

"Show yourself!" Ryou took a step forward but stopped as a figure landed a good ten feet away from him.

"You've been a bad little kitten." He pushed his sunglass up and smirked, Ryou narrowed his eyes at him looking him up and down sizing him up, jeans, vest and a white t-shirt under it.

"Tell me what you want." He laughed at Ryou and started to walk up to him, who didn't move from his spot.

"I'm here to bring you back… dead or alive." He stopped right in front of Ryou and lent down to his level, Ryou looked up only with his eyes. "I prefer dead." He chuckled.

"So do I." Ryou growled.

"Your brave I'll give you that kitty." Ryou took a swing at him, but he jumped back. "Feisty aren't ya?"

Ryou growled again this guy was playing some kind of game and Ryou didn't like it one bit, but something more was going to come from this he knew it. "You're taking your time, why?" Ryou asked. "If you're here to take me back, then why haven't you started yet?" the shadows moved closer to the other but they were noticed.

"I don't get out much…" he glanced to the shadows then at Ryou. "You're my first assignment, if I do well Gozaburo will give me more freedom and move me into his old office… on the top floor." He grinned.

"You have to be kidding!" Ryou scoffed at him. "You think some one like Gozaburo would think of you as anything more than scum he scrapped off his shoe?"

"He likes me said so himself." He grinned.

"He likes the green goo that grows in the little dishes in the labs." Ryou smirked as that grin faded. Ryou shook his head knowing this one was beyond help; he narrowed his eyes could he have ended up like that too, if he had stayed and not met Malik?

"No, you're just the defect and every one hates you not me." He lunged at Ryou, but the shadows moved in and cut him across the cheek but didn't deter him, Keith yelped and hit Ryou right on the jaw sending him backwards. "I need to cut your claws kitty." Keith wiped the small trickle of blood from his cheek, and then licked it off his hand. Then lunged at Ryou again, but stopped as shadows flew up and knocked him back, Keith was picked up again and slammed to the ground, and thrown across the rooftop, where he gasped for air, Ryou walked towards him grinning like he knew the worlds best joke, and that joke was 305.

Ryou picked him up again with his powers and slammed him to the rooftop a few more times, Keith's body now lay in a small hole of cracked cement, and Ryou knelt down next to him and grabbed him by the hair. "If you claim to be Gozaburo's favourite." Keith flinched slightly at the sinister smirk. "Then he should be very upset that you won't be walking away today."

"He'll come for you." Keith was slammed again, again and again into the cement roof.

"Oh I know he will." Ryou tilted his head to the side in thought. "But what to do with you?" He tapped his chin in thought. "To many people around to make you go away." Ryou gave him a frown and a nod of his head. "Malik would find out and I can't have that."

"You're the monster, Gozaburo was right to have you locked up." Keith gasped as blood ran from his mouth, Ryou's eyes turned brown and iris widened.

"No! No! He's the monster." Ryou pointed in a random direction. "He does things to me, makes me cry, scream, kill and fight, Malik protects me, gave me a name and all, he doesn't make me do that stuff. I'm not the monster!" Ryou growled as his eyes turned blue and iris thinned vertically he stood up. "Lets get started shall we? I'm late for work and I don't like to make Malik worry about me more then he already does." Ryou scowled as he grabbed Keith and pulled him out of the hole. "Yes I know about the tracking device, and no doubt that they well be here within twenty minutes." Ryou dropped him and took about five steps back from 305.

"I'm sure you're much more of a powerful foe than your letting on." Laughter bubbled up from Keith as he stood up. "See there you go." Ryou smirked.

"Play times over kitty." Keith growled wiping the blood from his mouth. Ryou gasped out as he was thrown into the air a few metres and landed with a thud, cracking the cement under his body all the air was forced out of his lungs. "You think that's bad, what until you get back." Keith laughed, Ryou rolled onto his side, he narrowed his eyes and the shadows wrapped around 305 and constricted on him.

"I said I'd rather die then go back!" Ryou got up shakily and lunged forward. Keith grinned as Ryou tackled him full on sending them over the edge of the building, Ryou threw punches on the way down, and 305 reached out and grabbed onto the fire-escape railing and watched as Ryou kept falling.

Ryou landed on his feet and hands with a wince from his already injured hand and a cracking sound followed and the pain run up his arm as it had hit the ground. He stood up holding it, he growled as 305 landed a few feet away. "I thought that you would be more of a challenge, you boast so much." He said, Ryou backed up, he was taking everything that Ryou threw at him as if absorbing every hit, a piece of metal pipe moving on the wall trying to brake loose to his far right, the soft clinking could be heard in the damp alleyway and voice of people walking by and cars.

"I've had enough of you!" Ryou yelled at him.

"You think you can take me?" Keith smirked. "Your weaker, smaller and slower." He laughed. "What you think that little 'slam me into the ground' did anything?" He laughed. "I've studied you, I had adjustments made on me because of you, because of this, and that disappearing act that you use won't work either."

"Adjustments?"

"Oh I was letting you think you had the upper hand. Sorry to burst your bubble kitty." He suddenly had Ryou pinned to the wall and his broken wrist from his fall was grabbed and lifted. "I've been watching you and that human for a few days… shame I have orders to take care of him too." He grinned. "I plan to have a little fun before I kill him." Ryou screamed as his hand was twisted, the shadows wrapped around Keith and cut into his skin, but he didn't let go only twisted it more, and the back of Ryou's head was slammed twice onto the brick wall behind him. Ryou's vision blurred and his hearing went for a second.

"I heard that when they have you back you're not going to live long anyway, so I might as well kill you here." He punched into Ryou's body, he couldn't defend himself on the sudden attack. He was slammed into the wall a few times and every time Ryou called out.

Ryou coughed and panted for air as his vision blurred so much that he was almost blind and his mind fogged and swam. "I'll have him screaming my name by the end, and there'll be nothing you can do about it, as Gozaburo drags you away in a bag."

Ryou was let go of and he fell onto the ground gasping and coughing, this 305 was just using strength, didn't have anything more? Ryou's eyes darted to the pipe then at Keith. With what little strength Ryou had left, he used his powers and pulled the pipe free and amid it at Keith's back and in a few seconds the spear like pipe run right through him.

305 gasped holding his chest, Ryou got up and sighed using the wall for support, thinking it was all over, but Keith started to laugh. "You fool." He pulled it out of his chest and threw it onto the ground. "You can't kill me." He dusted himself off as if nothing had happened. "You'll be a good little kitten and come home."

Ryou stepped back shocked, but then gathered up all the shadows. "And let you do what you want with my Malik." Ryou yelled as all the shadows ripped away from the objects that made them and wrapped around 305, the pipe shot into the air and with a flick of Ryou's wrist it flew forward and disappeared into the mass of ink black.

Ryou swayed a little he was so exhausted and the shadows moved like water back to where they came from, but Ryou gasped he was still standing there with his back to him. 305 turned slowly around, and lunged at Ryou again slamming him into the wall cracking the brick, and blood ran down the back of Ryou's head and over his shoulder, he was turned around and his forehead slammed to the wall also. Ryou crumbled boneless to the ground.

"What happened to the tough guy?" Keith kicked him, Ryou felt himself being lifted up and slung over a shoulder like a rag doll. "I'll drop you off and then take care of the human you're so fond of." Ryou opened his eyes they landed on the pipe, no way was he going to let 305 get his hands on his Malik he had to protect him at all costs.

Ryou dug his claws into his back and bit down, Keith yelped and dropped Ryou who rolled over and kicked 305, Ryou reached out and grabbed the pipe and threw it, Keith fell against the wall as the pipe was sticking out of his neck, and he made gagging noises with the sound of hissing air. "I-I ca…ca…can't…..di…die." He laughed, well tried to with an unseen force Ryou used to pull the pipe out from Keith's neck.

"Everything die's… even you." The pipe flew backwards then forward hitting him right in his left eye and out the back pinning him to the wall, there was a strange sound of gasping or grunt and a look of confusion and pain.

Ryou fell onto his back catching his breath, he ached all over and he was exhausted. He pulled himself up to his feet, he didn't want to be anywhere near 305 when they came for him, he walked out into the street and fell to his knees, a few people stopped and watched, but a gasp of shock rang out. "Ryou!?" He looked up but fell to the ground and the last thing that he saw was the worried look on the others face.

TBC

Well that wasn't what I had originally, but it works I think still more to come, I'll update soon so R&R "Love and Cookies"