Warnings: M and Yaoi.

Don't own Yugioh

CHAP 23:Part 2: Fight for Me

Bullets shot up the top floor walls in the hallway of Seto Kaiba's beach house, the sparks of light coming from the end of the guns from the six men wielding them. The pack of Dobermans chased Ryou about as he ducked in and out of rooms locking in as many as he could and hoping not to get hit, a few of the dogs Ryou had killed, now the bedrooms were all occupied and the rest of the dogs out of the way.

Not stopping once Ryou managed to have one of the men shoot their own as he ran by them then into the wall and out again on a different one, using another man as a shield and he shot the others down and dropped the dead body. Ryou panted heavily as he fell against the wall in the hallway and noticed for the first time he had been shot. He placed his hand against a bullet wound in his shoulder that was bleeding down his arm. He had a few others, a grazing on his left cheek, a bullet in his right upper thigh and one in his left upper arm; the dogs had bitten him also, he was feeling dizzy and weak. The men and dogs lay dead on the ground around his feet, the dogs he had managed to lock in the bedrooms, they barked and yelped behind the doors still wanting to get out and get him, he needed a second to get his breath back.

Ryou pushed himself off the wall; he needed to get rid of everyone in the area knowing that who was here would have something to help back them up and whatever it was, Ryou didn't need other men interfering if another battle should arise and provide Malik with an escape as well without anyone to stop him.

Ryou wavered on his feet and his knees almost buckled under him, it had been so long that he had pushed himself like this? He had never used so much energy before. Ryou growled and pushed off the wall he needed Malik more then to rest right now. With a whimper of pain he vanished from the hallway and walked down the stairs both guns in his hands held them up in front of him as his eyes searched the room, but only finding the rest of the group, Ryou reappeared in the room.

"Ryou?!" Marik called out looking up at him and gasped seeing the blood on the Neko's clothing. "You're hurt."

Ryou ignored him and asked. "Where's Malik?"

"Boots took him outside." Serenity whimpered. Ryou twitched at the name, it didn't matter he would get Malik back no matter who had him. Ryou stepped over Marik cutting the plastic strips that bound his hands together. Ryou moved on to Otogi as Marik ran into the kitchen grabbing a knife to free the rest of his friends.

Ryou stopped on hearing the ticking and looked around, knowing what it meant. Ryou growled he handed Yugi the knife to cut the others free. "Just hurry up." Ryou moved to the front door and watched as each of them got to their feet. "I'll go out first, then you guys go right and head into woods, I'll take care of Boots and get Malik back."

"We have to get out of here." Mai blurted out as she got up, knowing that the bomb would explode any second. The group gathered behind Ryou waiting for him to make his move. Ryou burst out of the doors his guns held up and moving as he searched for Boots. The group followed a few seconds later then ran to the right into the woods. Ryou then noticed the gun that he had picked up and placed at his lower back was being taken out. Ryou whipped around to see Marik holding the gun and Ryou took a step backwards growling a warning and pointed his guns at Marik.

"You'll need help." Marik said checking the gun chamber. "No one ties up my boyfriend and friends and think they can just walk away."

"You got an extra gun?" Seto asked from behind Marik.

Ryou growled at Seto then looked at Marik. "You can be hurt, this has nothing to do with you, Malik is mine and I'll save him not you."

Marik pulled Ryou into a hug, the Neko squeaked and his ears flattened back it felt strange to have someone else hug him other than Malik. "You can't do this on your own, Ryou." Marik pulled him back at arms length and he was bent at the waist slightly to look Ryou in the eyes. "Malik's my friend as well."

"And Boots is going to get an ass kicking." Seto hissed. "Besides I want answers from him."

"You need help, come on Ryou, what do you say?" Marik held out his hand for the extra gun in Ryou's hand. Ryou hesitated for a minute, but the conversation crept into his mind of what Malik had said to him in the park, about how no one would look after him as well as Malik had, if something ever happened to him, all because of how Ryou treated them all. Ryou bowed his head as a few tears fell, he was in pain and his worrying for Malik, overwhelmed him suddenly, that and if something ever happened to Malik he was truly on his own.

Ryou's face was tilted upwards and Marik brushed away the few tears from his face with his thumb. "No matter the out come today, Bakura and I will take care of you and make sure Malik is okay." Ryou sniffled and nodded his head he handed over the gun to Marik.

"Oh, pull yourselves together, I have a bomb in my house and we are still standing on the bloody porch talking." Seto hissed out. "Should I make tea for you as well?"

Marik shoved the gun out to Seto who took it. "Lets go." Marik said. The three took off running into the trees Ryou led the way to the opening where the vehicles sat; and soon after there was an explosion, bits of wood and glass thrown into the air with flames and black smoke filled the sky, Seto mumbled under his breath, on how much he loved that house.

Ryou and Marik stopped running as they heard a helicopter up ahead, Ryou panicked thinking that Boots had gotten away with Malik. He started to run again, but this time leaving Marik and Seto behind to catch up at their own pace.

The sun started to come up over the horizon lighting up the world. Ryou headed to the clearing and saw a second helicopter land and a group of men jumped out all holding guns, one Ryou recognized as Gozaburo, so he had come after all, the men holding up guns of their own all lined up, stopping Boots's escape but he still had Malik and holding a gun at his side.

Ryou stopped a few feet behind Boots, when Gozaburo called out over the helicopters engines. "Give up Boots, we have contacted your buyer, he has pulled out so hand over 482 to me." He was standing behind his men like always.

"You lack to see that I don't actually have 482." Boots shot back.

"Boots!" Ryou hissed his ears flattened against his head the man turned to him looking lost on what to do and angry at the same time.

Malik called out first struggling to get free. "Ryou run! I can take care of myself!"

The Neko-boy ignored him. "Give me back, Malik!" Ryou demanded he was seething and he trembled with rage at not being able to just walk up to them, he had his gun aimed right at the lab doctors head, Ryou couldn't do anything in fear of hurting Malik somehow.

"Your little death stunt threw us off for a while." Gozaburo said as the helicopter's engines stopped. The Doctor turned; Malik winced as the gun dug into his side more. The area was filled with the sounds of birds waking up and the light breeze started. "Did you think that you could sell 482 yourself without us finding out?"

"No, I was expecting you to find out after I had made the deal." Boots said as he held Malik in front of him as a shield in case they started to fire.

"No one steals from me Boots." Said a tall man with long white hair tied up in the back and an odd colour of one blue eye and one gold, they narrowed he was dressed in a dark suit with tie. "I can't have this mess." He said. "You know how I hate complications in things." He raised a hand and Mokuba jumped from the helicopter standing next to him.

"Mokuba?" Malik called out, what was he doing here with these people, had Seto lied?

"Kill those two and bring 482 to me dead or alive." Mokuba shot past with such speed heading right for the teen and lab doctor. Ryou also dashed forward getting there first, he hit Boots over the back of his head with the handle of his gun, sending the doctor to the ground unconscious, Ryou pulled Malik out of the way just in time to miss Mokuba's swinging claw. Malik gasped as the air from the swing blew against his face and before he knew he was on the ground.

Ryou charged forward punching Mokuba in the stomach and pushed him backwards away from Malik. Mokuba stumbled backwards on his feet and ended up tripping over and rolled down the small hill. Ryou was right after him. Mokuba jumped to his feet near the trees and called out. "Come on Ryou, I owe you a little pay back for what you did to me in the park." Ryou growled and ran after him.

Malik pushed himself up just in time to see Mokuba and Ryou in battle with each other. Seto and Marik came into the clearing. "Mokuba?!" Seto called out as he too saw the boys fighting.

"Seto, glad you're here." The said teen looked up towards the helicopter and saw his partner. "You can see first hand at what my work can really do."

"Dartz?!" Seto yelled. "What is going on? Why is Mokuba here and fighting with Ryou?" The older male just laughed at him. Marik ran by Seto and helped Malik get to his feet and pulled him back away from Dartz and his men.

"You lied, you're a part of this!" Malik yelled at Seto, punching him across the jaw, Marik grabbed onto him stopping Malik from attacking him further.

"I said I don't know what's going on." Seto wiped the small amount of blood from his mouth. "I'm just as confused as you are."

"Let me fill you in on that." Dartz said, slowly taking a few steps towards them. "Remember when our company's joined?"

Seto nodded and said. "Mokuba was sick with..." Dartz butted in.

"And you hoped that my research could help him." He said Seto nodded his head with narrowed eyes. "You sent Mokuba away to me and I saved him and at the same time found something that could make us richer than what we are." Dartz smiled to himself. "All I had to do was bring you around in joining me… but that pest escaped me."

Ryou ducked out of the way as Mokuba swung a broken branch at him like a baseball bat and lunged forward tackling Mokuba to the ground. The smaller of the two, bit Ryou on his left arm, Ryou yelped as flesh was torn off with sharp teeth. "I'll rip your fangs from your head." Ryou threw another punch to Mokuba's side hearing the sound of ribs cracking.

Mokuba jumped away as Ryou got to his feet. "You can try." Mokuba snapped back, the boy was faster and maybe stronger than Ryou; the Neko smirked as he gathered up the shadows in the area to pool around Mokuba's feet.

"I don't think that will work." Mokuba reached his hand into his pocket and pulled out what looked like a hand-grenade, the shadows wrapped around his legs, Mokuba pulled a pin and threw it into the air, and like a flare it light up the whole area chasing away any shadows. "I know about your tricks." Ryou covered his eyes against the sudden brightness.

"What are you talking about?" Seto shook his head now watching the fight, the two rolled into the tree line in their fighting and could no longer be seen and suddenly Seto paled and called out. "The cliff!" And he started to run towards them, forgetting about Dartz and the men; Malik gave them all a glance to see if they would be stopped seeing no one move he followed, as did Marik.

Ryou panted he was exhausted his body ached all over and he didn't know how much longer he could continue this. "You know?" Mokuba panted as well only a few feet from each other. "I'll be killing Malik after you're locked up." Mokuba then lunged at him again pushing Ryou backwards towards a tree with a bit of stick poking out of the trunk, planning to ram 482 right into it. Ryou vanished into the tree and Mokuba fell onto the stick jamming it into his chest accidentally, the boy screamed out.

Ryou appeared behind him using his own body to press Mokuba's chest towards the tree making the stick go further into his body. Mokuba braced his hands against the trunk of the tree and pushed backwards. "Lets see if you can still do that without a beating heart?" Ryou hissed into his ear. The sound of waves crashing could be heard clearly from where they were. Ryou pulled Mokuba's chest off the stick and went to shove him back onto it, but the boy jumped slightly placing his feet onto the tree and pushed them backwards.

Ryou stumbled back, falling over a small bush bringing Mokuba with him the boy ended up rolling right over the top of the Neko. Mokuba went over the edge of the cliff and grabbed onto the others legs. Ryou was suddenly jerked backwards and the ground wasn't under him anymore.

Ryou turned onto his stomach and made a grab at anything but was also pulled over the edge by the weight of the boy. Ryou found himself falling to quickly, his fingers dug into the rock wall breaking his nails off and skin, covering his fingertips, knuckles and the rock wall in blood.

Mokuba grabbed onto Ryou's legs tighter to save himself from the long fall onto the rocks below. Ryou managed to stop them from falling. "Mokuba?!" Seto desperately called out thinking that they had fallen as he lent over the edge to see what had happened to them. Malik was on his knees along with Marik also looking over.

"Did they go over?" Malik asked then called out. "Ryou?!"

"Malik!" Ryou called out reaching for a larger rock above him, but it fell from his hand and crashed down to the waves below them. "I can't get back up!" He slid down a little but the rock came unstuck and they both fell again, a few feet down Ryou latched onto the wall again, saving them. Ryou let out a cry as hands ached, his left hand the most, as it had been broken, cut open and burnt all in the last month.

"I see you!" Malik called out, he could only see the top of Ryou's head. "Hold on! I'm coming to help you!" He then turned to Marik. "We need a rope, something, anything to get down there."

"Where do you think I can get them from?" Marik shook his head the house was blown up and he didn't have a cell phone and help wouldn't get here in time, he called out down to Ryou. "Can you climb down?"

"Don't even think about it." Mokuba growled looking up, as Ryou looked down at the waves and rocks far below them, his ears flattened back against his head and he looked up, his whole body shook with the effort to hold on.

"It's to far!" Ryou called back, knowing that if he did anything Mokuba might pull them both down ending both their lives. "Malik, hurry?" Ryou called sounding panicked, he glanced at his hands and found a few of his fingers broken on both hands and pain that shot up his arms was enough to make anyone let go, but Ryou held on he knew he wouldn't make this fall.

"Any of you have a cell?" Seto asked.

"We were pulled out of bed." Marik reminded him.

Ryou yelped as his hands slipped from the rock and they fell again, both Malik and Seto called out. Ryou made grabs at the cliff face but failed as bits broke off and the wall suddenly slopped away from him, and with the sun up and on his back no shadows were available for him, they both fell.

"If I'm going so are you!" Mokuba let go and pulled a gun from his hip and aimed it, Ryou turned growling, and made a grab at the boy, they tumbled in their struggling, Mokuba shot the gun off, bullet after bullet hitting Ryou in the chest and stomach, Ryou took every one of them at such a close distance until the gun was empty and still Mokuba was pulling the trigger.

Ryou threw a punch to Mokuba's jaw sending him further away from the rock face. Malik, Seto and Marik watched in horror as Ryou slammed down onto a small shelf of rocks and Mokuba kept falling. The boy directly hit a rock, he lay there not moving for a few minutes as blood pooled over the rock and into the water, a wave came in and washed him away.

"MOKUBA!" Seto stood up and went to leap off; Marik grabbed him pulling him back to the ground.

"We'll find him from the bottom of the cliff." Seto pushed Marik away and started to run, heading to the path that led down to the beach.

"We can get to Ryou from the bottom as well." Marik said and started to run, Malik followed. The track that was normally about a fifteen-minute walk to the bottom, the three teens made it down in record time. Malik, Seto and Marik took a short cut here and there and within five minutes came upon the beach.

A small cruise ship was anchored in the water just in front of the cliff; a young man was just pulling Mokuba out of the water and onto the sand. Seto ran to them kneeling beside his brother. Malik and Marik kept running for the water. "We saw two boy's fall from the…" The young boy didn't get to finish as Malik and Marik jumped into the water.

The two swam avoiding the rocks in the water an older man in a much smaller boat stood not to far away and called out. "I have a first aid kit and I called the coast guard they're on their way now!"

Malik heard some of it as he grabbed onto a rock to get his breath back, he panted a few times and went to continue the cliff face wasn't to far away now. He hoped Ryou would be alright for a little bit longer. "Look out!" The man shouted from his small boat as he was unable to get any closer than what he was or his boat would be ripped apart by the rocks.

The rock shelf that Ryou lay on broke off and fell, it tilted and Ryou fell from it, the shelf hit the rocks shattering into pieces, Ryou's shoulder hit a rock, scraping off skin and most likely breaking bones, he slipped under the water.

Malik swam towards where Ryou had been; he took a deep breath and dived under the waves. Malik found him through the murky water and grabbed him pulling him to the surface taking a good hold on Ryou, Malik started to swim. Marik stopped at Malik's side panting as he held onto the rock trying to get his breath back, it was hard fighting against the waves. "Bring him here!" The man called out, being the shortest distance, Malik nodded pulled Ryou towards the small boat, once there the man lent down and helped pull the injured boy in then helped Malik and Marik in as well.

"Lets get him onto the land." The man steered the boat to the shore.

Malik lent over Ryou finding his lips a pale blue. "He's not breathing!" Malik called out. The man drove the boat to the shore in no time. Malik lifted Ryou gently from the boat to the sand, he lent over the Neko. "We have to get him breathing again." Malik gave Ryou a few puffs of air and the water spilt from his mouth and nose and he coughed a few times. "Ryou, talk to me?!" Malik's hands shook as he brushed the hair out of Ryou's face; the older man left for a second then came back and threw a blanket over Ryou's legs to help keep him a little warm.

Ryou slowly opened his tear filled light brown eyes. "Malik, it hurts." He gasped out, he just didn't have the energy to keep going and he felt so cold.

Marik dropping his knees next to Malik, seeing the blood pool under Ryou's back and Malik's knees Marik mumbled. "Oh shit!" He placed his hands on Ryou chest to help stop the profusely amount of blood running out of his body. How long had he been bleeding like this? Marik thought to himself as it wasn't working there was just to many holes to cover with only two hands, Malik's hands joined his right after, but it didn't stop the bleeding. "There's so much blood." Malik shook his head.

The older man from the boat knelt down on the other side of Ryou and started to cut away the bloody t-shirt only to reveal more of the blood-covered chest and stomach with even darker holes. Malik let out a strange noise from the back of his throat, the older man said. "I'm a doctor and if we don't move fast we're going to lose him." Malik looked up a few tears slipped out running down his cheeks.

"Can you save him?" There was still so much Malik wanted to show Ryou and do together, this wasn't right Ryou couldn't die like this.

"I don't know, I have never seen anyone injured like this and still be conscious." The man said.

"Ryou was built to handle wounds of all kinds." Malik, Marik looked up over their shoulder just in time to see Dartz point at them and a shot rang out, a choke gasp came as the old man held his hand to his chest and fell to the sand, the boy that had been with the old man called out and ran towards them, a second shot rang out and the boy also fell to the sand holding his leg and screaming.

"Since I'm so nice." Dartz said walking towards them, six men held their guns aimed at the ready. "I'll give you five minutes." He lifted his arm and looked at his watch. "The time is ticking."

Malik shook his head in dismay, how was he going to get them out of this one; a very soft high-pitch sound came from Ryou that was almost lost in the light breeze. Malik's eyes widened as Ryou lifted his hand and caressed Malik's cheek smudging a little blood and sand on the tanned cheek. "Why didn't you listen to me?!" Malik mumbled tearfully.

"I heard something and… w-wanted to-to... ask you about… it had made t-them happy." Malik pressed his cheek more into Ryou's open palm and lent into the soft touch.

Malik's voice strained. "What is it?" He didn't have the heart to tell Ryou that there was more pressing maters at hand and how Ryou should have listened to him in the first place.

"W-will you… you marry… me?" He gave Malik a weak smile and said. "I-I don't have… a round… thing." Ryou's face twisted up in pain and he took in a short breath. "To give… you." Before Malik could say anything, Ryou started to cough and his hand fell from Malik's face, blood ran from his mouth and nose.

Malik shook his head and pulled his hands free of his chest and held Ryou's face in his blood stained hands. "Ryou, stay awake!" Malik desperately urged him, but nothing happened. Malik's eyes widened as he stared at Ryou's face.

"Touching." Dartz waved a hand the men moved in pulling Malik and Marik away and holding them at gunpoint.

Malik turned towards Dartz. "You bastard!" Malik screamed at him. "Haven't you done enough?"

"Apparently not." He said as he watched his men lift Ryou onto a stretcher, the sound of the helicopter came and soon it landed, Seto still sat holding Mokuba in his arms, he wasn't going to be moving any time soon, Ryou was then carried towards the helicopter.

Malik moved forward, guns were raised to his chest height; Marik stopped him by placing his hand on Malik's shoulder. "Don't be stupid, Malik."

"Please, don't do this." Malik called. "Don't take him away from me." He knew he was begging at this point, but he didn't care. " I need him." Marik came up behind Malik and grabbed a hold of his friend before he did something that got them both killed. "Don't take him back I'm begging you!"

Dartz smirked and said as the man pulled Ryou onto the helicopter. "I fail to see the point where you think I care." Dartz climbed in as the man backed away from Malik and Marik. "A little hint for you, boy." Dartz picked up a gun and pointed it at them. "Its all business."

Malik called back his heart in his throat. "No Ryou's much more than that, don't you see?!"

"Yeah I see, I see myself richer than before!" Dartz pulled the trigger twice, hitting Marik in the arm and Malik in the chest, a small dart sat out against their skin. Malik pulled it out and dropped it to the sand, he found his body weighing to much and he felt so tired suddenly, Marik fell to the sand and Malik followed.

"Lets go." Dartz commanded, the helicopter turned and headed inland.

TBC

Hey not to much longer to go and I think it will be the end of this story so R&R me and get the next chap.