Emerald-demoness: Okay, I have a few more questions for my lovely readers. There will be romance in this story. Should it be yaoi or not? I'll warn you now though, if it isn't yaoi, most pairings will be with oc's. (Yugi will not end up with Tea, if I have my way, she will die or something.).

If it is yaoi, what should the pairings be? Yamis and Hikaris, or something else? Also, this will be a Tea bashing story, so what should happen with her? Should Yugi finally find out she's a bitch on his own, or should the new and 'improved' Ryou point it out to him? Should she become a 'side enemy' or just be sent to the shadow realm by one of the Yamis?

Anyway, those are all the major plot holes I have right now, so let me know what you think in a review, and I will do my best to make everyone happy. Now, on with the story!

"Talking"

'Yami-Hikari speak or thoughts'

Chapter 3

The first thing Ryou did when he was finally in control of his body again, besides falling when he tried to stand, was get something to eat. Naturally, life can not be so simple. As soon as he sat down to eat, his so-called father walked in the door. This isn't to say he wasn't happy to see his father though. He was ecstatic.

"Hello, father. How nice it is too see you again." Ryou said sarcastically, leaning against the wall with his arms folded. He felt Bakura wake up in the back of his mind.

"What do you want, murderer?" his father sneered at him. Ryou heard Bakura growling.

"I'm the murderer? Ha! Mother may have died because she gave birth to me, but you're the one who got her pregnant, you hypocritical asshole!" He felt Bakura's confusion through the link. 'I'll explain later' He told him.

"How dare you talk to me like that, scum! Your mother-"

"My mother specifically told you not to blame me for her death! Don't you remember that, father dearest? After all, it was only the night she died in the hospital!"

"You killed her!"

"I was fucking six!" Ryou shouted, standing up from his position against the wall, his arms at his sides and his fists clenched. "Just how the hell do you sleep at night, telling a six-year-old that it's their fault their mother died?"

"You have no right to talk to me like-"

"I can talk to you however I want, old man! You may send me checks to get by, barely, while you're out with your precious digs, but you are not my father! A father cares for his child, loves them, and raises them. They certainly do not throw them down the stairs in a drunken rage or call them a murderer!"

"How dare you! How dare you talk to me like that when I have put up with your disgraceful presence and gave you everything you need to live a comfortable life?"

"Put up with my presence? Comfortable life! Ha! Now that's just the funniest joke I've heard all day. How can you 'put up with my presence' when your never here! And how can this life," here Ryou gestured around him, to the house that had no personality, gave no comfort, and only had the bare necessities, "possibly be called comfortable compared to your life.

You have a life consisting of five star hotels, expensive cars, rich restaurants, tons of useless but expensive trinkets and obviously no child. Not to mention how much money I know you have to spare since you have me pay the bills with the money sent to me, only leaving me with the leftovers that are barely enough to pay for my food, clothes, and bathing necessities. Oh yes, I live such a comfortable life when compared to yours!"

"That is enough! Go to your room!" His father yelled at him.

"Or what, are you going to start beating me again, like you did when I was six? Or are you going to throw me into a mirror again, like the time that you gave me the scars on my back? Or maybe-"

Ryou was interrupted by his father slamming him against the wall, with his hand around his neck. Ryou instinctively shut up. 'I don't fucking think so!' he heard Bakura shout through the link. Next thing he knew he was beside his body in spirit form and Bakura was kneeing his father in the stomach.

Ryou saw his father bend over Bakura's knee, about to throw up whatever he ate that day, right before Bakura gave him an uppercut that sent him flying a few feet away. When his father didn't get up, he knew he was knocked unconscious.

"Bakura, didn't I tell you not to take over my body without permission?" Ryou asked him turning away from his father.

"Who cares? I'm giving it back." Bakura replied.

"That's really not the point. . ." Ryou trailed off, shaking his head. "Ah, whatever. Thanks for that." He continued, nodding towards his father.

They switched before Bakura asked "So why does your father call you a murderer?"

"My mother had a disease; I don't remember what it was called. It basically made it to where she couldn't have children without dieing." Ryou explained.

"She had you." Bakura pointed out.

"Exactly. That's why she died. It took longer than the doctors expected, but she did die because she had me. Of course, father, being the hypocritical bastard he is, decided I was to blame."

They didn't talk after that and Ryou finished his now cold dinner. He sighed when he realized that his father would likely wake up pissed. He called Yugi, with Bakura yelling in the background that he didn't want to go to the pharaoh's house.

'Oh, hush, it's not even the pharaoh's house, it's Yugi's. Well, Yugi's Grandpa's.' Ryou told him while the phone was ringing.

'Oh yeah, cause that makes a huge fucking difference!' His yami said sarcastically.

'Yami.'

'What!'

'Please shut up.' Ryou told him, instantly blocking him, and his rant, out.

"Hello" Yugi's voice said over the phone.

"Oh, hello Yugi, it's Ryou. I was wondering. . ."

_Time Skip_

Ryou walked down the street, a bag over his shoulder, ignoring his yami for all he was worth. When he reached the Kame Game Shop, he calmly knocked on the door. Quite a feat with Bakura yelling at you. The door opened, showing Yugi with an amazing bed head and tired looking eyes.

"Sorry for waking you, Yugi-" Ryou started before Yugi interrupted him.

"No, no, it's fine, really! I fell asleep really early anyway. I can understand you wanting to get away from your father if what you told me is anything to go by. But Ryou, why didn't you tell us before?"

"It will take a long time to explain."

"I've got plenty of time." Yugi told him, finally seeming fully awake.

"I'd rather tell everyone at the same time, so I don't have to explain more than once." Ryou told him.

"Okay, I think I can get everyone here by tomorrow." Yugi said, leading him up to the guest bedroom.

"That sounds great. . ."

Ryou and Yugi both went to bed, one anxious, one worried. Though, admittedly, Ryou did have to yell at Bakura to shut up before he could sleep.