Hellsing Fan Fiction / Yu-Gi-Oh! Fan Fiction ❯ Darkened Life ❯ Chapter 17

[ Y - Young Adult: Not suitable for readers under 16 ]
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-Telepathy-


(Thoughts)


Chapter 17


"I though Yugi had been through enough crap?" Joey said.


"Well if someone hadn't run off it never would have happened," Tristan pointed out.


"I wasn't all Bakura's fault," Tea said. "If anyone is to blame, it's that other vampire."


Yugi was in emergency surgery to reconstruct his ribcage and repair any internal damage. His jaw had only a hairline crack, so it wasn't worth fussing over, he would just have to live with that pain for a while, but he had lost two of his back molars.


"She's got a point," Joey said.


They were the study, as usual. Bakura was sitting in a far corner while his friends and family sat at a table in the center. Bakura could hear everything that was said, not that he wanted to. All he wanted to do was be by himself, give himself some time to think.


He knew the vampire that had come after him had to pay, that was obvious. He planned on doing it alone where no one could get caught in the middle. The only problem was finding the chance to do it.


"Hey!" Joey yelled all of a sudden.


Bakura snapped out of his thoughts and found Joey standing right in front of him.


"Woke you up didn't I?" Joey asked. "I still haven't gotten my turn to chew you out yet."


"And your point is?" Bakura asked, annoyed.


"My point is," Joey started, "Is that you're dead brain there almost got Yugi killed! If you hadn't stormed out like you did, none of this would have happened!"


Bakura resisted the urge to hit him, knowing if he did he could very well kill him. He got to his feet, making the other man step back. "You heard what Tea said, blame the vampire that did it, not me." He turned and walked out of the study, trying to limp.


He got to his room and slammed the door. He collapsed onto his bed, trying to ignore the throbbing of his wounded leg. The blade had gone all the way through, cutting muscle and taking a good size chunk out of the bone. He hadn't let anyone treat it either, so now it was slowly oozing blood onto the sheet.


"Might want to get someone to treat that," the spirit said as he appeared next to Bakura.


"I'm going to ask you a question that you still haven't answered," Bakura said with his eyes closed, "Why do you care?"


Yami Bakura glared at him. "If I didn't, I wouldn't gotten your mind back after you went berserk."


Bakura smirked, "Sure you do." He ignored the spirit now.


Yami Bakura growled, but vanished back into the ring with no other word.


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Bakura dozed off after a little while, but was abruptly awoken what seemed right away.


"What?" he asked, annoyed.


"Gods Bakura you looked like were dead," Seras said.


Bakura blinked, "I am dead."


Seras smacked him upside the head, "You know what I mean. You're lucky Tea didn't come with me. She would have had a heart attack if she had walked in here and seen all of the blood and you asleep."


Bakura looked down at his wounded leg. The blood had created quite a large stain on the bedspread, and there was some blood also pooled on the floor. He shrugged, smirking.


Seras growled and threw a blood pack and bandages at him and got to her feet. "I expect you to have treated that wound have drunk that by the time I come back, and I won't be alone!"


Bakura glared at her as she slammed the door. He sat up, wincing as he leg throbbed. He figured he may as well bandage it, and did so. He glared at the blood pack, but he knew if he didn't drink it he'd regret it later.


As soon as he was done he threw the pack away and stood around for a moment. He didn't want to stay here; if he did he would just be harassed. He decided to sneak out again. It was daylight out, and the vampire wouldn't be able to come out, and Anderson was unable to do anything at the moment.


He snuck out the manor and headed off down the street. He felt no regrets about leaving. He walked down the street without any particular destination in mind. He went through the park to pass time, he didn't want to go back to the manor, not unless it was the only thing he could possibly do.


He wandered the streets of London all day. Even when night began to fall, he made no move to head back to the manor. Instead, he stayed in the areas of London that were always busy at night. But even the sounds and lights began to annoy him, and he wandered off into the darkness of the night.


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"I can't believe he left again," Joey grumbled.


"Well I don't blame him," Yugi said. He was sitting up in bed, and his injuries didn't seem to be bothering him. "From the sounds of it, all you guys did to him was yell at him. I wouldn't want to stick around either if I were in his position."


All around him, his friends got guilty looks on their faces.


"So what do we do?" Tea asked. "Do we go out and look for him again?"


"It's the only way we're probably going to find him," Seras said. "I don't think he really wants to come back to the manor."


"You heard what he said earlier," Tristan said, and received several glares. "What? It was what he said."


"We don't need to be reminded," Bakura's father said.


"So what do we do?" Tea asked. "We can't just sit here."


"Bakura will be fine until dark," Seras said as she peered out the window. The sun was setting, "Which isn't very long from now," she added.


"Does that mean we have to go looking for him again?" Joey asked.


"Yes," Tea and Bakura's family said at once.


"You two are staying here," Bakura's father said to his wife and Kiyo.


"But Dad," Kiyo whined, but her mother silenced her with a stern look.


"I'm going," Yugi said as he started to get up.


"No way," everyone else said.


"I've been through worse," Yugi retorted. It was true.


"Looks like we're going to have to sneak him out then," Seras said with a sigh. "The doctor said that he didn't want Yugi moving."


"I stopped listening to my doctor when he said that my surgery was going to go smoothly and then they gave me an over dose of anesthetic," Yugi said with a sly grin.


"Huh?" Seras asked as Joey and Tristan hauled Yugi out of bed.


"You don't want to know," Joey said as


Yugi fought to keep a straight face, even though it hurt like hell to be moved. "Let's just say, I almost didn't wake up."


Seras shuddered, and then went to go see if their way was clear before they all left the room.


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Bakura wandered through the dark alleyways, running into nothing more than rats. Now, instead of expecting Anderson, he expected the vampire to appear out of the shadows.


He made his way into a deserted block. By now, it was very late, almost midnight. As he passed through the empty, abandoned buildings, he began to sense that something wasn't right. One of the abandoned buildings drew his attention more than the others. It was completely broken down, but it still seemed to stand strong at five stories. Behind that building was a hoard of broken down, collapsed buildings.


"Why do I have the feeling that going in here is a bad idea?" Bakura muttered to himself as he headed toward the building.


-Then don't go in, - the spirit said.


Bakura ignored the spirit as he approached the doorway into the building. He kicked the door open and cobwebs and bits of wood collapsed onto the floor. He walked carefully inside, hoping the sense that he had was complete faulty.


The first two floors held nothing but dust and a few rats. The third floor was a different matter. The dust on the floor and walls had been disturbed, like there had been a struggle of some sort. He pulled out his gun and took off the safety, just in case.


The signs of a struggle continued up to the fourth floor. Bakura was beginning to wonder what really happened when he picked up the scent of blood. Now he didn't care if he wasn't quiet. He ran through the rest of the floor, checking every room he came across. When he reached the stairs to the next floor, he stopped. Blood was all over the stairs. The sight of the amount made him hesitant to go up the stairs and find its source.


Bakura gulped, and then carefully began to make his way up the stairs. The blood was only slightly dry, making the bottoms of his shoes sticky, not that he really wanted to think about it. The stench of blood was beginning to make him feel sick, which he knew would make Alucard laugh. He reached the top of the stairs, and nearly lost his footing when he saw what was on the last step.


The corpse of a guard was lying on the last step. His organs were hanging out of his body. Bakura swallowed hard, feeling more sorry for the guard than anything else. He knew that the guard would become a Ghoul soon, so he made sure it wouldn't happen by using a bullet, shattering the eerie silence for a few seconds.


He stepped over the body and headed for the closest open door. When he reached it, he knew something would be in it, even though he still hadn't looked through the doorway. He gripped his gun tightly, and then stepped in front of the door.


He came close to dropping his gun at t he sight he saw. "Oh that bastard..."


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Author's Note: Man, that took me long enough to finish. For those of you that have been reading this, I thank you. Just to let you know, I will be out of town for a week and a half, to a place where computers aren't really permitted. So if you read this chapter and hate the cliffhanger ending, too bad! Hehe, enjoy this chapter. Review me and tell me what you think.