Yu-Gi-Oh! Fan Fiction ❯ A Simple Wish ❯ Ch. 6 Answers ( Chapter 6 )

Well, I'm glad you're all enjoying this so far. I hope you like this chapter too!

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Chapter 6: Answers

Ryou shook his head, and sighed again. He looked out the window at the stars and closed his eyes, thinking. 'I wish everything was back to normal.'

A bright flash of light lit the room, and Ryou shot out of bed in surprise. He squinted his eyes against the brilliant luminescence invading his room through the window.

Suddenly a soft voice spoke. "But didn't you want to have someone who cared for you?"

"Who . . . who said that?" Ryou asked, looking around.

All he saw now was the white light. He couldn't see his room anymore.

"I did Ryou." The soft voice spoke again, this time definitely coming from behind him.

Ryou turned, and froze. There behind him, was a young woman. Though she was definitely not human, he could somehow tell she was female. She seemed to be made of bluish-purple flames. But her eyes were black with white specks. He thought that the specks moved for a moment, almost like a star field. But he couldn't be sure.

"Who . . . what are you?" Ryou asked, suddenly a little scared. 'Where is Yami? Shouldn't he have come out by now?'

"What I am is unimportant. I am the one who heard your wish, and decided you deserved the chance to experience having someone love and care for you." She said, almost seeming to smile at him. "And your friend, Yami, will not be appearing. I have taken you to a different plane of reality. One where time doesn't exist and Yami cannot follow."

Ryou wasn't sure how to take that. He was glad that Yami was all right. But he wasn't sure that he wanted to be alone with a strange being that might or might not wish him harm.

"I will not harm you, Ryou." The being stated, as if it had read his mind. "I wish to help you."

Ryou decided to skip the question of how she knew what he was thinking and moved on to the more important question.

"Why?"

"Why what?"

"Why are you helping me?" Ryou asked, then added, almost too softly to hear, "Why would you want to help me?"

"I do want to help you? Why wouldn't I? Don't you think that you deserve to have some happiness in your life?" She asked, sounding shocked.

"No one's helped me before." Ryou replied, a little sharper than he intended. "Why should they start now?"

She shook her head, and looked at him sadly. "Your wrong, you know."

"About what?" Ryou asked, not paying a lot of attention.

"About no one helping you before." She replied, resting a hand on his shoulder.

Ryou was startled. Not just because he hadn't noticed her move, but by the fact her hand didn't burn him. It didn't even feel hot. She raised her other arm, and pointed off to the right. Ryou looked at the spot she pointed to.

He watched as the blank spot swirled and formed into a glassy surface, like a mirror. He looked up at the being in confusion, but she motioned for him to watch the 'mirror'.

He turned his head back and watched the mirror swirl once more. This time it formed an image. Ryou was shocked to see . . . himself! No . . . wait, he looked closer and realized that it was Bakura. The mirror shifted to a wider view, and Ryou saw Yami facing Bakura. It looked like the duel Yami and Bakura had had while they were at Duelist Kingdom. Ryou watched as the last few moment of the duel played out. He watched Yugi attack Bakura's face down monster, and be paralyzed by the Electric Lizards special effect.

When Bakura played the Change of Heart card and Ryou appeared, the image froze, and the being beside him spoke.

"Your friends could have destroyed you when you took over Bakura's monster, but instead, they found a way to save, not only themselves, but you as well. They restored you to your body, and trapped Bakura in the Ring for a time."

The scene played out, then changed to Bakura confronting Tristan. Ryou watched Tristan hand Mokuba's body over, then strike Bakura, knocking him out.

"Again, your friend could have saved himself and the boy only, and left you, or even killed you. But instead, he made sure that you were safe as well."

The scene changed again and again, each time showing him times when Yugi or one of the others had helped him. He honestly hadn't remembered half of them. He had always just assumed that, since they didn't stop Bakura from hurting him, they didn't care. But now he saw that he was wrong. Yugi in particular seemed to make an extra effort to comfort Ryou, and get him to talk about his problems. Finally, the images faded, and the mirror dissolved back into a blank space.

"You see, they do care for you. And they do want to help you." The being stated, moving away from him.

Ryou nodded, not sure what to say at the moment. She saved him having to respond to her comment by asking him a question.

"You wished for Yugi's yami. Is that what you really wanted?"

"No," Ryou shook his head.

"What do you want?"

"I want Bakura to care about me, like Yugi and his friends care about me. I thought I wanted him to be like Yami, but . . ." He shook his head, laughing a little. "I don't think I could survive that for very long. I don't see how Yugi deals with him."

The being smiled at him, "Everyone has problems, some larger than others."

"I guess." Ryou's smile faded, and he hesitated, unsure of what to do or say next.

He settled for asking, "What now?"

"You have a choice now." She replied. "Things can either go back to the way they were before you made the wish, you can continue to have Yami as a partner, or you can have Bakura back but with his personality altered."

Ryou thought about it. He really wanted Bakura back, as much as he hated to admit it, he did care for Bakura. He just wished that Bakura cared about him. However, forcing Bakura to change didn't seem right to him. He realized that keeping Yami not only wasn't what he wanted, but wasn't fair to Yugi. Yugi had done his best to help Ryou, and Ryou couldn't just abandon him to Bakura. After thinking about it for a while, Ryou finally came to a decision.

"I want things to go back to the way they were before I made the wish."

She stared at him, shocked, for several seconds, before finally speaking.

"May I ask why you don't wish for me to help you?"

"I'm sorry, but I don't think it's right to force someone to change. I do wish that Bakura cared about me, but only if he chooses to." Ryou answered honestly.

"That's, very unselfish of you. I've never come across someone like you." She seemed to think for a moment, then asked, "What if I give Bakura the choice to change?"

"What do you mean?"

"I can bring Bakura here, the one from your real world, and show him some of what he has done to you. Maybe if he really sees what he has done, he will be willing to change. I could "open his eyes.""

Ryou thought about this new possibility. If Bakura saw and acknowledged what he was doing to him, would he be likely to care? Ryou didn't think so, but then again . . . 'I can't see where it would hurt anything. If it doesn't work I can't see where I'd be any worse off. Bakura knows he can't kill me or he'll be trapped in the Ring again. That's some comfort at least.'

"Alright, I think that might work." Ryou finally replied.

"Very well."

There was a flash of bluish-purple light, and suddenly Bakura was standing next to Ryou.

"What the hell is going on?" He asked, looking around. "Where am I?"

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Sorry, have to end it there. This chapter was getting a bit long. But don't worry, I'll post the last chapter this weekend. Probably tomorrow. Hope you enjoyed it!

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