A/N Manga based. References of Monster World RPG and the fact that in the manga Ryou couldn't hear Yami no Bakura until he touched the puzzle.


A neurosis is a secret that you don't know you are keeping. ~ Kenneth Tynan



Ryou hears things sometimes. Whispers.

He'd never admitted that to anyone, not even himself. Even now the thought is no more than grazing the conscious part of his mind. It's not even a thought, it is that unformed. It's more of a feeling.

He feels it (especially at night) like a blanket of darkness that surrounds him, cloaks him (because no one seems to notice him anymore, no one seems to care and those that get too close…the comas –) and suffocates him. Sometimes he can't breathe.

(Sometimes he hears laughter.)

Ryou would just ignore those feelings, suppress his intuition – but it's changed him. Like the way he wakes up not knowing where he is or the way his ears perk up at not just his own name anymore, but also at the word "host"…

He shakes his head.

No, there is no need to think about this now. He needs rest. (He needs to just close his eyes and not be afraid of the darkness beneath them.) Ryou forces his eyes shut and wills himself to sleep.

After all, tomorrow he starts his first day at Domino High.


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