Emerald-demoness: Okay, this really should have been part of chapter five, but I'm experiencing a lot of author's block. It doesn't help that I'm mostly making this up as I go. School is about to start to, so I may be updating even slower. I'll stop talking so you can read now. . .
Chapter 5, part 2
Bakura looked surprised, before his gaze softened into one of understanding. "Ryou, Hikari and Yami are basically two halves of one soul. It's almost impossible for you not to trust me. Even Innocence trusted me. He didn't like me, but he trusted me." Bakura tried to explain.
Ryou curled up, using the armrest as a pillow. "It isn't safe. Trusting someone only gets you hurt." He mumbled.
Bakura stared in shock. He knew his Hikari would have trust issues, but . . . 'How dare that pathetic excuse for a person do this to my Hikari!' he thought viciously.
"What about friendship-midget and his friends? You trust them." He pointed out to his Hikari.
"Iie. I may trust them more than others, but I still only trust them to a point. Bakura, I haven't trusted anyone since my seventh birthday." Ryou told him.
Bakura shook his head sadly and picked Ryou up, heading towards his own room. Ryou stiffened, before relaxing, before stiffening again. Bakura knew he was fighting his own instincts. His instincts told him he was safe, but his mind, and experience, told him otherwise.
'I will make that bastard pay for what he has done. I will make him beg for death before I'm through with him!' Bakura thought, already plotting.
"I'll take over for today, get some rest." Bakura told Ryou calmly, showing no sign of his internal wrath. Ryou, losing the fight with his instincts, simply nodded, falling asleep in Bakura's arms.
Ryou was put in Bakura's soulroom, while Bakura went to Ryou's. The room looked as dreadful as ever, unsurprisingly. He stood in the center of the room before saying calmly,
"Innocence, we need to talk."
He hear a light giggling on his right, and turned to see Innocence leaning against the wall, the others flanking him.
"I knew you would come. We only kept Ryou from noticing, not you." Innocence told him.
"So you know why I'm here." Bakura stated, crossing his arms and waiting.
"You wish to know about Ryou's other memory gaps. The one's he hasn't noticed and why we kept them from him." Innocence said, not a single hint of question in his statement. Bakura nodded.
"Ryou cannot handle those memories. He won't be able too until he merges with me." Innocence said.
"What are the memories about?" Bakura demanded.
"You already know, you just don't want it to be true." Innocence told him.
Bakura looked away, a pained expression on his face. Then it changed, and pure fury radiated from him. He looked at the personalities gathered, the sadistic gleam in his blood red eyes startling most of them.
"I trust that none of you will have a problem with a death in the family." He stated, knowing now that, although death was far too kind for that despicable human, Ryou's father must die. Painfully. With torture devices, fire, and the shadow realm included. Not to mention the ideas the others would have.
He left without an answer, not expecting one. A few minutes later and Ryou was lying on the bed in his own soulroom, sleeping semi-peacefully, unaware of the plotting going on within his own soul.