Title: Alone
Summary: A compilation of YGO one shots that were inspired by one simple word.
Warning: Angstshipping, so…YAOI!
Disclaimer: I don't own Yu-Gi-Oh…yet.
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Ryou hated to be alone – he had been lonely for so long that he'd become a rather clingy person. That crushing loneliness had been one of the only reasons he kept the Millennium Ring. It's hard to be lonely with a whole other person living inside your head, after all.
And Malik hated to be alone as well. Because when he was alone, the thing in his head became unbearable. It mocked him. It tortured him with it's very words. It told him nobody loved him – Isis looked out for him because he was family, Rishid stayed so Malik wouldn't hurt everybody, and his own father didn't love him because what sort of father did what his did to him? It's words always struck Malik hardest when he was alone.
Ryou became closer to Malik after the Battle City tournament. As they grew closer, they grew less alone. And as they got less alone, Ryou opened up to Malik about his fears.
"I'm so…so lonely without him! There just, there was another person in my head, just a while ago, and now he's not there and I don't have – I don't have anyone anymore!" Ryou babbled. "How can I go on like that? You're the only person I can talk to, Malik!"
Malik looked down at Ryou, who had been clinging to his shirt. "You can take Mariku. I don't want it." He meant it half-jokingly, but -
Ryou couldn't help it then. He reached out and struck Malik. "I can't – I can't believe you. You have everything that I want but you'd give it away so easily?"
Malik touched his cheek, squelched the sting. "I don't like being alone any more than you, Ryou…And it is the reason why."
Ryou clung onto Malik's shirt tighter. "Oh."
Malik absently patted Ryou's head. "Buck up. At least we're alone together?"
"Huh?"
"If we're alone together, we aren't alone…" Malik mused.
"You're not making sense." Ryou said quietly.
Malik laughed then. "Yes, I am." He leant down and gently kissed Ryou's forehead. "If we're together, we can't be alone, because we've got each other."
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A/N: You can thank Rivertear980 for this! Thankkkkkks Riv! Seriously you're one of the only people that regularly comments/reviews on my stuff. Anyways, fluff. Fluffy fluff where Malik is mean to his yami. :C