Shipping: Tendershipping

Warnings: Abusive Bakura and attempted rape

Summary: Ryou grows sick of Bakura's abuse, so he locks him in the bathroom and runs away. What happens when Bakura bursts through the door and discovers his hikari gone? And what happens when Ryou runs into a not-so-good gang? Can Bakura save him in time?

Ryou groaned as he held his already bruising side. He clenched his teeth in pain as he tried not to cry, but a few tears still flowed down his reddening cheeks. Bakura smirked and kicked him in the legs before walking out.

Ryou looked down at his bruised and cut up body. He rested his head back against the wall, staring up at the ceiling and weakly pushed himself up off the ground.

He limped towards his room and bandaged himself up. He looked towards the door when he heard the bathroom door shut and the shower turn on. Getting an idea, he limped towards his closet and began looking for something.

He grinned when he found it and pulled the belt out. He walked out of his room, the belt in his hand, and went to the bathroom door. He quietly wrapped it around the door handle and hooked it onto another handle. It had just made it. It helped that the hallway was kind of small.

He ducked under the belt and rushed carefully down the hallway. He went down the stairs, through the living room, and out of the house.

Ryou's P.O.V.

I walked down the sidewalk feeling the cool night air hit my skin. I hugged myself. I should have brought a jacket', I thought to myself. I didn't exactly know where to go, but I didn't care. I was free.

My mind slowly drifted over to Bakura. What's he going to do? Will he forget about me? I wonder if he even got out of the bathroom, yet. I looked down at my wrist where my baby blue watch clung to it. It's been abut 10 minutes since I left, so he probably has.

Bakura's a strong man, and I didn't tie it tight. It wouldn't take much for him to pull it lose.

I soon came up to a park. It was small, with a slide, two swings, monkey bars, a teeter taughter, and those rocky things for the little kids. I went over to the swings and sat down on one of them. I lightly pushed myself with my foot.

I looked up from the ground I had been staring at when I heard a bunch of footsteps coming towards me. 5 guys stood in front of me. They looked to be in their 20s. They each wore a smirk on their faces.

"U-Um, hello, can I help you?" I asked nervously. The guy in the middle stepped forward. "I think you can. Grab him." My eyes widened in fear and I quickly got off the swing, ignoring the pain that shot through my leg.

I started running, but I could hear them following after me, and they were quickly catching up to me. One guy caught up to me and tripped me, sending me skidding on my stomach on the pavement. I cried out in pain as I felt my skin pull apart.

I rolled onto my back as I cried. The guys walked up and surrounded me. "Get up, wimp." One said, and then kicked me in the side. More tears rolled down my cheek.

The guy, who I'm gonna guess is the leader, being he was always in the middle and commanding everyone around, groaned in annoyance. "Get! Up!" He said, kicking me harshly on my other side. "Stop!" I cried as I grabbed my side in pain.

The leader scowled. "Pick him up." One of the guys bent down, grabbed my arm, and pulled me to my feet. Being my head hung towards the ground, the leader roughly grabbed it, forcing me to look at him.

He grinned creepily and stroked my cheek. "So beautiful." He said. With all the courage I had, I spit in his face. The guy turned his head to the side as the spit hit him. He slowly turned his head to look back at me as he wiped the spit away.

In the blink of an eye, he had a switch knife to my throat and was glaring at me. "I suggest you don't do that again, got that?" I nodded, my eyes wide with fear. He chuckled and brought the knife away, putting it back in his pocket. "Excellent."

He slammed his lips onto mine, making me whimper. He roughly bit down on to my bottom lip causing blood to seep into the one-way kiss. I felt the guy that was holding me up start to roam his hands over my chest, and down between my thighs.

Tears, and tears, and more tears rolled down my cheek. This can't be happening! Why did I have to run away from Bakura? Sure, he hurt me, but he never made an attempt to rape me, and he kept me safe from anyone that tried to hurt me! Well, except for him.

I was surprised when the lips left mine, allowing the blood to dribble down my chin and drip to the ground.

My eyes widened when I saw Bakura standing in front of us, arms crossed and a glare on his face. He growled as he slowly walked forward. "Put. My hikari. Down. Now."

The leader of the group laughed. "We're not scared of you! There's one of you, and 5 of us. You don't stand a chance against us." Bakura smirked. "You wanna bet?" The leader smirked. "Bring it! Akiko, attack!" He shouted. One of the guys, Akiko, charged towards Bakura, his arms raised ready to wail him, when Bakura stepped out of the way.

Akiko had been running so fast, he slammed into the tree behind Bakura, and knocked himself out. I watched as his body collapsed to the ground unconscious. Bakura looked back at everyone. He was grinning. "Who's next?"

The leader stepped away from me and turned so he was fully facing Bakura. "Big deal. You made it so one guy crashed into a tree, but you still have us four to go against." He looked towards the guy holding me. "Drop him." He commanded.

The guy did as he was told. Being I was so weak, with nothing to hold me up, I crashed to the ground in a heap of pain. I groaned and weakly looked up at Bakura. He was staring back at me, concern in his eyes, though the glare was still there.

/I'll save you, hikari. Don't you worry./ I heard him say through the mind link. I closed my eyes and slowly nodded. All I could feel is the pain going through my whole body.

Bakura looked up at the guy. "Psh, I could easily knock you four out." He said. The leader growled. "Please, you couldn't even knock me out." Bakura grinned. "If you're so strong, than why don't you fight me yourself?" "Fine! Bring it!" The leader screamed and came charging towards Bakura at full speed.

Bakura's grin grew wider as he stepped out of the way and stuck his foot out, sending the leader flying into the same tree the guy earlier had hit The leader groaned as he rolled on to his back, leaning against the tree, and glared up at Bakura.

Bakura walked closer so he was standing in front of the leader. He was grinning big. "Yes, you're defiantely strong. Strongly clumsy. I think you will make an excellent snack in the Shadow Realm." Bakura removed the ring from under hit shirt and held it in front of him.

The leaders eyes narrowed. "Ooh, a ring! I'm so scared!" He said sarcastically. Bakura chuckled. "You should be." He pointed the rung towards the leader and some purplish mist started to float from it. It slowly drifted towards the leader, who's eyes widened, and surrounded him. Even the people in his gang looked scared now.

"Wh-What the hell?! Get this stuff away from me!" The leader tried to crawl away, but the purply mist had already fully surrounded him. He screamed as it closed in and he was soon gone. The mist slowly returned to the ring and Bakura tucked it away, back under his shirt.

He turned to face the rest of the gang. "Run, and you'll live." He said simply. The guys slowly backed up, stared a moment, then took off running, making Bakura chuckle. "Oh, how I love scaring people." He seemed pretty pleased by what he had done.

He soon looked over at me. He walked over and knelt down beside me. "Ryou..." He said slowly. I prepared myself for the yelling and extra pain about to come. "What?" I whispered.

"Look, I'm not gonna hurt you, but I am curious, why did you run off like that? You know that it's dangerous at night, and those guys are good examples of how bad it is. They were gonna rape you, then probably kill you." His voice was full of... concern?

I looked up at him. "But why do you care? You hurt me, too, so wouldn't you be glad to finally have me out of your hair?" I was pretty upset here. He's always beating me up, and throwing insults at me, so honestly, why would he care?

Bakura sighed and looked straight ahead. "I'll explain it to you later. Right now I need to get you home and take care of your injuries." I watched as he slid his arms under my knees and around my shoulders then stood up.

He carried me back to the house in silence. The whole time all I could think about was why Bakura saved me. There had to be some reason behind it! The guy hates me, so why would he just randomly save me Exactly, he wouldn't! At least shouldn't. Don't get me wrong, I'm glad he did, but it just doesn't make sense!

I was so busy paying attention to my thoughts that I never noticed that we had arrived to the house, until I was set down on the toilet. I watched as Bakura grabbed some bandages from the cabinet then turned back to me.

"I already have bandages on." I told him. He raised an eyebrow and I continued. "Because of what you did to me earliar." "Oh..." He looked away for a moment, took a breath, then looked back at me.

"I'll just change those bandages, too. Some cuts could have reopened." He said. I nodded. "Ok, you're gonna have to take off your shirt so I can get to your injuries."

A light blush appeared on my face and I slowly removed my shirt, letting it fall to the ground. Bakura stared at my creamy white chest a moment before starting to remove the older bandages.

-A Couple Minutes Later-

"There. You're all set." Bakura said as he started packing and putting away the kit. I stood up and walked to my bedroom where a few minutes later I was joined by Bakura. It was silent a few minutes until I decided to break it.

"So are you gonna tell me why you saved me?" I asked looking over at him. He took a breath and spoke so low that I didn't even hear him. "Um, can you please repeat that?" I asked. "I said that I love you." He said louder, then, to my surprise, he turned around, grabbed my shoulders, and pulled me into a kiss.

I think what shocked him even more, though, was when I returned the kiss. He pulled away and looked at me in shock.

I smiled. "I love you too."

He sat there for a moment before pulling me into a tight hug.