Yu-Gi-Oh! Fan Fiction ❯ Anything For You ❯ Both of Us ( Chapter 31 )

Heather Chan: Well, I'm glad you could get to the computer again.

Ryou's Mistress: Here. *hands chibi Ryou doll *

Lupusdragon: Ryou will be fine.

Enoch: I want chibi dolls!!!

Pharaoh Yamis Princess: I'll check it out.

Lunara: I'll keep them safe. It's just Ryou's memory that is fighting me now.

Dragondreamer: Well, as a matter of fact, it will take me a while to get over vacation. Thanks to you and MARK my words, I will enjoy my future vacation.

AMT: With school and all updating is nearly impossible. I'm doing all I can to work on this.

Angelic Mouse Girl: They deserved it. Ryou's gonna be ok. He's just going to zone a little bit

Angel Black: I don't plan for Bakura to kill Child Services, but I do plan for something to happen.

Ssjgoddesschico: Yeah, poor Ryou.

Falling Leaves: I'll have to think about your idea…sounds good.

Both of Us

Bakura's POV

I opened the heavy cedar door to Ryou's hospital room. Ryou was lying in bed curled up with his knees pulled up to his chin. His eyes were open wide as they seemed to watch something invisible and horrifying behind me. What is he thinking?

"Ryou?" I kneeled in front of him rubbing his cheek softly. Ryou didn't move. It was almost as if he stared right past me, like I wasn't even there. "Ryou? Aten was asking about you."

"Do it for Aten…do it for Aten."

I shook my head in dismay. What could I do to make it better? "Ryou, Steven isn't here. Jessica and Tim are gone forever. They can't hurt you anymore."

Ryou's breathing began to quicken and his heart monitor began to race.

"Bakura….no…….please…..don't do this, Bakura…I'm sorry."

Seto, Aria, Joey, Marik and Malik came into the room. Yugi must have been with Yami, calming him after I yelled at the pharaoh. Well, he deserved it!

Ryou's eyes opened wider and he trembled. I had seen enough. I handed my Ring to Marik. "Hold this. I'm going into his mind."

Malik approached Ryou slowly and looked into the other hikari's eyes. "Is that wise?"

I thought for a moment. "No. It's not. It's intrusive and wrong. But, I may be able to help him that way."

The Ring glowed and I disappeared.

I reappeared in Ryou's old home. I was in Steven's bedroom where I used to sleep alone with the curtains tightly closed so no light would enter the room. Never could tolerate light when I slept. It had to be dark as pitch. Otherwise, sleeping was impossible.

Running, I burst into Ryou's room. Inside, Ryou was on the bed bound by wrists and feet. Beside him stood a figure with long white hair, its back was to me. The figure with the white hair only chuckled. I gripped the figure and turned him around. It was Tim….but with my hair.

Tim laughed and I gripped his shirt in anger.

"What did you do to Ryou?!"

Tim laughed and he looked down at Ryou's shaking form covered in bruises and white drops.

"We both did this to Ryou, Bakura. We both did this to him. Both of us….enjoyed it."

I gripped his shirt tighter and threw him into the wall.

"I didn't…enjoy it."

Tim shook his head. "You lie, Bakura. We both took him. Look at him."

My pale lover was gasping for breath as I remember him doing when I used to be his tormentor. An army of tears crept down further down his face, carving a trail of self defeat and humiliation.

"You remember him, don't you, Bakura?"

Ryou turned his head towards us. "Why……"

"You remember him, Bakura….his body…..his blood….both were….so sweet."

I closed my eyes and tried to erase the memories of those days. "I'm not like that…anymore."

Tim curled his lip in a smile. "To him, you and me are the same now. Both of us took him without his consent. Both of us rid him of his innocence. Both of us…..caused him pain immeasurable. And most importantly….both of us enjoyed it."

"Master, please let me go…" Ryou whimpered from the bed beside us. "Please let me go."

Tim looked down at me. "Go and talk to him, Bakura. Let him go. Release him."

I rushed to the ropes which bound Ryou to the bed. The twine was wrapped so tightly around Ryou's wrists, I was afraid to release him. the twine would dig deeper into his wrists.

"How can I release him?"
Tim stepped beside Ryou and kneeled down. "Release him, Bakura. Like this." Tim's lips pressed against Ryou as the captive whimpered. Tim's hand traveled down Ryou's nude body.

"What do you say, Ryou? You want release?"

Ryou arched his back, his face contorted in hatred.

"Stop this! Alright. I did enjoy doing that to Ryou, but it is you who did this to him, Tim!"

Tim metamorphosed into a replica of me. "No, Bakura….you did this to Ryou first. Tim was merely a trigger for Ryou's repressed memories about what you did to him. You were the first to take Ryou without his consent…now Tim and you are no different. You are both his rapist."

I clenched my teeth and I turned Ryou's face my way to look at me. "Ryou, please. I love you very much. Please, Ryou. I love you."

My double laughed. "We know you love him. But that doesn't change what you did to him."

"Ryou, please…I."

Ryou's head leaned back and his back arched in a painful spasm.

Before I knew it, I was back in the hospital room. I looked around the room. Everyone was staring at me.

"Well? Did you see anything?" the puppy asked me.

"I saw Tim. Ryou's mental defences have compared me and Tim together."

"What does that mean?" Yami asked entering the room.

I took Aria away from Seto's arms and I cradled her close to my chest. My daughter smiled and nuzzled her spiky hair into my neck. My little girl. I missed her so much.

"What does it mean?" Marik repeated.

"Ryou mind believes that Tim and I are the same. His mental defences kicked me out," I said bringing a chair and sitting beside Ryou.

"Why would his mind think that?" Seto asked pulling up another chair and crossing his long legs.

"Because…." I looked down at Aria and I covered her ears as she closed her eyes almost falling asleep on me. "Because I raped Ryou and now his mind thinks that I am no better than Tim Cinetti. That is why I was kicked out."

The group went silent, except for the pharaoh. I really didn't need his opinion on the matter.

"You did WHAT??!" Yami said approaching me angrily. I think the only reason why he and I didn't have a brawl on the floor is because I was holding Aria in my arms. Yami knew better than to strike me while I had my daughter in my hand.

"Oh come on, Yami! You knew I did that to him! But I'm sorry that I did!"

"Now we know where "who's got daddy's blood lust?" came from!" Yami said pointing an accusing finger at me.

I stood up to confront my enemy. "Don't point that finger at me unless you intend to use it, Yami. Didn't the palace teach you any manners? Look, I regret doing that to Ryou. But I love him now. If you don't believe me, look at our daughter that we had together! If Aria isn't proof of our love for each other, then I don't know what else I could show you to prove myself."

Marik's disbelief melted away remembering his son still in the Pediatric center. Marik put a hand on Yami's shoulder much to my surprise. "Ryou and I were never close. He was closer to Malik than he was to me. But I know that Bakura was a jerk in the past, Yami. Hell, he was a real asshole. A real pain in the.."

"I GET THE POINT! GET ON WITH IT, ISHTAR! GODS!"

"Anyway…Bakura was a real bastard in the past, but he is different. He really does love Ryou."

"Ryou really wanted to have Bakura's baby," Malik commented. "Ryou was so happy when he was able to have kids! He forgave Bakura for all the things that Bakura did to him. Can't you see past Bakura's history, Yami? You have to see what Bakura has become, not what he was, to see how much he truly loves Ryou."

Yami turned back around to me. "I know you wanted to marry Ryou because you loved him. I often thought if it was the right thing for you and Ryou to do."

"You doubted my love for Ryou?"

"No. I do not doubt how much you love him. I love my hikari the same way. And Marik…well…he loves his hikari every way possible…every way…every place…every position…"

"HEY!" Marik growled indignantly.

"But we all love our hikaris. I was worried that Ryou was jumping in too quickly considering your violent history together."

I nodded. I knew Ryou and I had a rocky, unstable past. Our Egyptian wedding was meant to prove that I was beginning a new life with him. A new life where I would love him forever and never leave him. We would bury our past and start new. That is why we married at sunrise….to begin a new life with a new day.

"But I love him, Yami. It hurts to see him like this," I said rubbing Ryou's white hair.

Aria turned around and began to squirm in my arms. I put her on the bed beside Ryou. My baby crawled up to Ryou's lips and nudged her lightly with her arms.

"Mommy? Mommy? You awake? I'm hungry."

Ryou blinked and I saw it! "Ryou?"

Aria leaned up and kissed Ryou on the lips. "Mommy?"

Ryou blinked again and actually moved his head down to look her in the eyes.

I couldn't believe it! Ryou was responding to Aria!

"Ryou? Ryou!" I bent low to Ryou and I kissed his forehead. He looked up at me with a gleam of recognition in his eyes.

"My….Y…Yami? Bakura? Is that you?"

I smiled and a tear slid down my eye. I wrapped my arms round Ryou's shoulder. I held him tightly. I had to know he was there. I missed him so much. Ryou turned his head to kiss my lips.

"I love you, `Kura! I love you, yami. Please….don't leave me."

I brushed his hair back and looked into his eyes. "I never want to leave you, tenshi."

Aria watched Ryou with a big smile. She hugged Ryou and laughed.

Ryou kissed Aria gently christening her hair with tears. "I love you, Aria! I'm so glad you found daddy."

"Unkie Seto and Unkie Puppy hewped me."

Ryou looked up at Seto with large eyes. "You…you helped her?"

Seto nodded. "We helped her. One of my trucks brought her to me. We cleaned her, dressed her, and we returned her to Bakura."

"Aria was a little sick afterwards, but she recovered quickly."

Ryou cuddled our daughter, his and mine. I brushed my hair against Aria's hair. Ryou gave her beautiful hair…so much like mine."

"Ryou, do you remember anything from the cabin?" Marik asked.

Ryou shook his head. "No. All I remember is cuddling Aten down in the basement. That is the last thing I remember."

Was Ryou repressing the memory of the cabin and his abduction? Ryou had been through a lot even without our past.

"I remember being grabbed after walking by my old house. I remember pleading with Aria and Aten to escape. Aten? Where's Aten?"

"Aten's in the pediatric ward. He's in stable condition. It's you we were worried about. They didn't give you much of a chance because you didn't have any medication."

"I gave my medication to Aten."

"Food?"

"I gave it to Aten. I gave everything so he could eat and be safe." Ryou seemed to grip onto Aria tighter. "I gave everything for him."

Ryou kissed Aria's forehead when a nurse entered the room and said that visiting hours were over. Ryou needed to have his rest.

I took Aria from Ryou's arms. To my surprise, Ryou curled up into a ball again.

"Ryou?"

The same empty stare returned to Ryou's eyes. I heaved a sigh and I kneeled before Ryou again. "Ryou……Aishiteru." I kissed my lover on the lips and left.

"Do it for Aten…do it for Aten" was chanted by Ryou as I closed the door behind me.

Next chappie: Someone comes to cheer Ryou up and Aten is moved into Ryou's room.

I will update either Wednesday night or possibly Thursday. I have a lot of reading to do.