Hellsing Fan Fiction / Yu-Gi-Oh! Fan Fiction ❯ Darkened Life ❯ Chapter 19

Disclaimer: I don’t own Yugioh or Hellsing.     -Telepathy-     (Thoughts)     Chapter 19     Bakura stood in the center of the crater, staring at the blackened spot that used to be Kasumari. His powers were still going, his wings and claws glowing brightly in the dark, starless night. He stood there for a long time, and he only turned his attention away from it when he heard the sound of sirens approaching. He extinguished his powers and pulled the hood of his jacket over his head and climbed out of the crater.     He carefully made his way out of the site, careful to stay completely out of sight. Even after he was out he still stayed in the shadows. He ran for a long time, and he didn’t even know what time it was when he finally stopped. He slumped down against a wall in a pitch-black alley, feeling empty and alone. He let his tears flow freely as the reality of his friends’ deaths finally completely sunk in.     He had known that killing Kasumari wouldn’t bring them back, but he couldn’t let the vampire just walk away. Bakura had had other reasons for wanting him dead. Changing him into what he was for one thing, assaulting and injuring his friends was another. He had been a danger to Bakura’s whole family, and in result he had lost some very important people.     ***           & nbsp;   After sitting there for a long time, Bakura had zoned out into a stupor, not caring what happened to him. The sound of approaching footsteps echoed through the alley, but it didn’t rouse him from his stupor.     “You are incompetent,” said Alucard as he approached the other vampire. “Mopping over some humans.”     Bakura snapped out of his stupor, but he had surprisingly heard everything that Alucard had said, and replied, “Wouldn’t you have done the same thing, if he had killed Integra?”     Alucard was silent, but then said, “Do you really think they’re dead?”     “The building they were in collapsed,” Bakura said, “I had told them to stay inside, how could they not be?”     Alucard smirked, “Would you believe me if I said that you had other friends in high places?”     “Don’t make me laugh,” Bakura answered, his voice was empty of all emotion.     Alucard shrugged, “Suit yourself, but don’t get too deep in whatever thoughts you maybe having, you may end up hurting someone.” With a swish of his coat he was gone.     Bakura stared out into the darkness after Alucard, but he didn’t dwell on what Alucard had said.     ***     Seras made her way down the dark alley. Her master had told her where to go and she had followed his instructions. For a normal human being, going down this alley would have been impossible, but with her vampire sight it wasn’t a problem. She began to wonder if she was ever going to find him when she finally spotted him near the end of the alley.     She approached him carefully, not sure what he would do. “Are you going to sit here all night?” she asked quietly.     Bakura looked in her direction, “What do you want?”     Seras swallowed the hint of annoyance she felt toward him for that statement, and replied, “Master told me to come and find you.”     “Why?” Bakura asked, “So you could drag me back to the manor and be blamed for what happened? Don’t even try it.”     “That wasn’t why I was sent,” Seras answered, trying not to get mad at him. “I guess my master does like to get to the point sometimes. What he was trying to tell you is that your friends aren’t dead.”     “Explain to me how that is at all possible,” Bakura said.     “Ishizu and her brother are still here,” Seras answered. “She somehow found out what was happening and was able to get your friends out of the building before it was destroyed.”     Bakura stared at her, “Ishizu?” The full concept hit him and launched him from where he sat. He grabbed Sera by the shoulders, “They’re really alive?”     Seras calmly pried her friend’s fingers from her shoulders, “Yes, now unless you want to stay here and mope about them all night then that’s fine with me, or would you rather come back to the manor and see them?” He didn’t even need to give her answer, and the two of them left the alley.     ***     Bakura hardly paid any attention as they ran. He was so surprised to hear that his friends were alive, but if Ishizu had a part in it, how could they not be? Before he knew it, they were standing in front of the manor.     “I’ll warn you,” Seras said to him, “Sir Integra isn’t happy. If people had seen you, the Hellsing Organization would have had some real problems to cover up.”     “I don’t care what Integra thinks,” Bakura pointed out, “In case you hadn’t figured that out already.”     Seras sighed and they went in.     They meet Alucard as soon as they walked through the door.     “You should have listened to me, boy,” Alucard said.     “You weren’t very clear,” Bakura replied. “Perhaps if you had mentioned Ishizu the first time, I may have believed you.”     “I hope you’re happy.” Bakura looked up to see Integra standing atop the stairs. “Due to your little escapade earlier, your friend Yugi had to go back into surgery. Running around trying to find was too much of a strain on him. By the time your friends got him back here, he was beginning to suffocate on his own blood.”     “Do you know his prognosis?” Bakura asked.      “He’ll live,” Integra answered. “But the doctor says if he breaks his ribs anymore the bones will be too damaged to repair even surgically. He also suggests that Yugi stay off his feet until he’s completely recovered.”     “I’ll take all blame for it,” Bakura said. “Though I’m sure Yugi will be happy to know that the one who injured him is now currently a blackened outline at the bottom of a crater.” He smiled in recollection; killing Kasumari had brought his friends back, even though they had never been gone to begin with.      “Hey,” Alucard said suddenly. Bakura turned to face him. “Here, I’m tired of listening to him.” Alucard held up the Millennium Ring.     Bakura stared, “When did…” He thought for a second. (It must have been when Kasumari first started throwing stuff at me.) The rope around the ring was roughly cut, confirming his thoughts. He took the ring from Alucard, and immediately was in a mental argument with the spirit of the ring. He couldn’t really call it his dark side anymore, vampires were the darkness, whether the spirit agreed with it or not.     Keeping half of his attention on the argument with the spirit, Bakura turned the rest of his attention back to Integra. “Where is everyone?”     “In Yugi’s room,” Integra answered.     Bakura nodded and headed up the staircase, taking the stairs three at a time. -Will you give it a rest already? - He asked the spirit of the ring.     The spirit paused for a moment. -I don’t see why I should; you left me there. What if one of the police people had picked me up? -     -You would have been put in a museum where you belong, - Bakura answered. -Just be happy that Alucard picked you up, and stopping nagging me. - Without another word, he erected mental shields to block the spirit out. (At least I won’t have to worry about him for a little while,) Bakura thought as he reached Yugi’s room. (Here goes nothing.) He knocked on the door.     The door opened and Marik stood there, looking slightly alarmed.     “Am I allowed in there?” Bakura asked.     “Uh,” Marik looked over his shoulder. When he turned back, he nodded hesitantly. He moved out of the way so Bakura could enter.     When Bakura saw who was inside the room, he almost wished he hadn’t come in. Beside the fact that it was a little cramped, his parents, sister, and his friends were in there, along with a bed which Yugi’s drugged and unconscious body lay.      Marik walked past him and sat down near his sister. The whole room was silent, all eyes on Bakura. Bakura leaned against the wall, not sure what to say.     “So the other vampire is dead?” Bakura’s father asked.     Bakura nodded, “Nothing left except a blackened mark in the middle of a seven foot crater.”     “I am assuming that Alucard saw your demon form,” Ishizu said. “He won’t tell us, but are you willing to tell us?”     Bakura eyed her, “If you knew what was going to happen, you should already know what my demon form looks like. Am I correct?”     Ishizu smiled, “You know my power well enough. Yes, I do know what it looks like, but I do not wish to show everyone until Yugi awakens.”     “You’ll be waiting a while then,” Bakura said, “From what I learned from Integra, Yugi will be out for a while, not just because of the drugs.”                 Ishizu nodded, but Joey made a face, “Ah come on, can’t you at least tell us something?”     Bakura turned to Joey, “What is there for me to tell you? I killed Kasumari, there’s nothing else to explain.”     “But how did you kill him?” Tristan asked. “You definitely didn’t bite him.” Bakura made a face of disgust and the whole room laughed quietly.     “I wouldn’t have physically touched that vampire with a ten foot pole,” Bakura said. “Ask Yugi, he saw what it was doing before the fight started outside. I don’t particularly want to say what happened.”     “What makes you think I do?” They all turned to Yugi, whom was now awake. “Let’s just say that vampire made a bad name for the gay men around the world.”     “Eww,” everyone except Bakura and Yugi grimaced.     “Hey,” Joey pointed out, “Yugi’s awake, that means we get to find out what Bakura’s demon form is.”     “You really want to know that badly?” Bakura asked. “It’s not something you’d want to look at all the time, not to mention it’s bigger than the manor.”     “No I really want to see it,” Joey said.     “I’m ready,” Ishizu said, “If you will allow me to show them.”     “All right,” Bakura said. “Better to show them this way than making me shift into it. I don’t want to do that again for a long time.”     Ishizu nodded, and activated her necklace. The room darkened and the site where Bakura fought Kasumari appeared underneath them. They watched as a building collapsed, shuddering to think they had just been inside it. They watched as Bakura’s powers emerged, first the wings, and then the claws. When he shifted into his full demon form, the room gasped.     “A dragon?” Tristan asked. “Hey, thumbs up from me. Better than what I hear Alucard’s is.”     “Yeah,” Joey said, “He’s a hell dog, way too many eyes.”     “And that is that,” Ishizu said as her powers deactivated and they were back in Yugi’s room. “Now that we’ve all seen what Bakura’s demon form looks like, I believe it’s best for us to leave so Yugi can get some rest.” She looked at Bakura, “Correct?”     Bakura nodded and opened the door. Everyone filed out except for Ishizu; she would stay with him to make sure nothing went wrong.     ***     Author’s Note: All right, I was able to update before school started. Don’t expect too much for a while. My schedule may be less crammed than last year, but I doubt I’ll still have much free time. Hope you enjoy this chapter; it took forever to feel like writing, band camp totally zonked me. 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