Yu-Gi-Oh! Fan Fiction ❯ Baby of Mine ❯ Instruments of Destruction ( Chapter 29 )

Ok. I said today would be the ultrasound. I forgot I wanted to do something before that. Still, we do find the gender of the babies in this chappie and who the father of each baby is. We also find out their names.

Hato-chiisai: I also have this on adultfanfiction.net if mmorg acts up.

Ssjgodesschico: I know the suspense was getting too much

Elizabeth Marie Rose: Yeah for anzu bashing! I love anzu bashing! So much fun!

Angel Black: Never thought of that. Hmm…

Lupusdragon: I promise a happy ending

Instruments of Destruction

Marik, Bakura, and Ryou got home and Malik finished the snacks. Ryou and Malik ate the cookies hungrily. Bakura and Marik were silent as they ate both of them focusing on Ryou. Ryou finished eating and yawned. The day was too long and she claimed she was too tired to watch television. She went upstairs right to bed.

Marik turned to Bakura gripping the Millenium item with shaking hands. Knowing the Shadow Realm was near Ryou was dangerous. The hardest part about this was that Ryou's babies were also in danger. Bakura sat at the table with his hands folded and clenched. They couldn't make Ryou nervous by alerting her to their suspicions. The last thing Ryou needed was more stress. Malik cleaned up the kitchen and sat by Marik.

Marik's knuckles were turning white from the force with which he gripped the Rod.

"Yami, you don't look so good," Malik said touching Marik's forehead. "You are very pale."

"Malik, sit down," Bakura said. Malik raised an eyebrow at the former tomb robber now more serious than he sounded when he left for the class. "Marik and I sense there is something wrong with Ryou."

"Wrong? She's not going to lose the babies, is she?" Malik's voice quivered in fear.

Marik pulled his hikari closer. "No. Marik and I sense a presence from the Shadow Realm. The source is coming from Ryou."

"What's this about Ryou as the source of the Shadow Realm?"

Bakura sighed. Malik was getting increasingly upset. "When Ryou leaned against me in the Lamaze class, I sensed this presence coming from Ryou's belly. It was not a very…amiable presence neither."

Marik crossed his legs and his arms with a frown on his face and his brow furrowed. "We may not have detected it earlier because the babies were so small. Now that they are growing, it is possible that we can sense this presence more. It's likely we will feel this even more as the babies grow.

Malik turned to Marik gripping the tablecloth tightly. "Is Ryou going to be alright?" Tears began to flood his eyes. "I don't want Ryou to lose the babies! I want to be a parent, too!"

Marik took Malik in his arms. "Now, we can't alert Ryou to our suspicions, tenshi. If we do, it may scare her and we don't need to scare her."

"But I want Ryou to be alright!"

"So do we," Bakura said. "But I suggest we keep this to ourselves. I will not jeopardize Ryou's life. If Ryou's life is in danger because of the presence from the Shadow Realm, then we will have to do what we must to protect Ryou."

"What if the children are a source of the Shadow Realm? What then?"

Bakura sighed and brushed his hair back with his fingers. A tear fell down his face. "I will do anything to keep Ryou safe. Ryou is important to me. And if the babies threaten her life, then we must do what we must do."

"You can't be serious, Bakura Itemri!" Marik said.

"I always wanted to be a father, Marik. I always wanted someone to live for, a little version of myself. But I do not want to lose Ryou over this. I don't know what to do. However, I do suggest that we see what happens before we make any decisions."

Marik put down the Millenium Rod to hug his crying hikari. "Let me tell you something, Bakura. I love Ryou. I love the idea of being a father. When I felt that one baby today, it made me think about a lot of things. Those babies will have four people who love them very much. We are strong enough to protect each other and them from anything that may threaten us."

Bakura wiped a tear away. "This is a delicate situation. Let's keep our eyes and ears open, Marik. I have a feeling there is something more to this than we can see right now. Malik, do you sense anything from Ryou?"

Malik sniffed. "I know she is happy! That's all that matters to me!"

"Well, Marik and I can detect this presence then. I wonder if we bring the pharaoh in here. I wonder what he would say."

"Well, me, you, and Yami can survive in the Shadow Realm. Our hikaris don't have the bond that we have."

Bakura nodded. "I will protect Ryou at all costs. I will also try to protect the lives of the babies at all costs. We worked so hard for them so far. We've come too far to lose them." Bakura stood up. "Goodnight."

Bakura left Marik holding his hikari. He climbed the stairs and found Ryou just slipping into sleep. Bakura stripped and slipped into bed beside Ryou. Bakura put his arm around Ryou and fell asleep.

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Bakura's POV

I opened my eyes. The dark stone walls of the prison were illuminated only by

torches. The cold air of the night came through the bars of the prison. My back stung. I rubbed my back only to find my hand covered in red.

"Stupid general," I winced as I stood off of the floor. I saw how thin I got. My stomach grumbled with need for food. Interesting…I thought the stomach didn't growl in dreams. Does this mean this is not a dream? If it's not a dream, where am I?

I was so hungry. The only thing available to eat were the insects which tried to crawl in to escape the cold. I wasn't about to make a meal out of this again.

I went to the bars and looked around for a guard. So hungry. No strength.

"Is anyone there? Hello?" No one answered. "Someone bring me food! Hungry!"

"How the mighty have fallen, Bakura Itemri!" a voice chuckled from the back of the cell.

I turned around quickly to see a figure emerge from a purple haze. My heart almost stopped. I….I thought I killed him! In Ryou's soulroom! In my Ring!

"A-A-Anubis!"

"Well, I'm flattered you still remember me, Bakura. I see you like your accommodations in your dreams?"

I backed away. "What are you talking about?"

Anubis chuckled and pointed around him. "This is all my doing, Bakura. If you can't be a prisoner in your conscious state, in your unconscious state, you are mine."

"All I need to do is wake up to escape you."

"True…but you can't stay awake all the time."

Anubis advanced to me. "This is your punishment for foiling my plans to get the Millenium Items. You will be my prisoner in your sleep. For you see, I was the general in ancient Egypt who captured you. Yami was my step-brother. I knew that if I captured the one who robbed my father's tomb, Yami would find favor with me."

I began to growl as visions of Marik's death filled my head. "You…you killed Marik back in ancient Egypt!"

Anubis pulled out the dagger still covered in blood, which I assumed was Marik's. He pointed it to my neck. "This killed your lover. This same dagger which killed him, now threatens to kill you."

"I am immortal. You can't kill me."

"In ancient Egypt, you were mortal. And so, you are mortal here, too. In your dreams you are your former mortal self. Would you care for me to demonstrate?"

Anubis cut my chest and I fell to the ground. Damn! I forgot how much that hurt!

"You do not have to worry, Bakura. I will destroy you. I will use the ones you love to destroy you."

I looked up at Anubis trembling from pain. "Ryou?"

"You stumbled onto my presence, Bakura. For you see, Cinetti's soul is inside your mate. Actually, his souls are inside Ryou now, getting stronger and stronger by the day. When the time is right, your own children will destroy you."

My children? Does that mean I am the father of both! For a minute I was happy, but it didn't last long.

" My children will…..not…destroy me."

"The same lives you have created out of blood, pain, and tears will cause you more heartache than you have ever known."

I shook my head. Was Anubis trying to play with my head?

"Ryou's own children will kill her. What she nurtures today will only give them more strength tomorrow. She may love them, but they will kill her nevertheless."

I turned away from Anubis hearing a scream and saw a teenage girl wielding a knife. A boy was holding Ryou to his chest

"Aria! Stop! I'm your mother!" Ryou cried in the arms of the boy who held her tightly against his chest.

"Don't cry or scream, mother. This will only hurt for a second. I'm sorry. I'm so sorry, mommy. I love you. I love you."

"Aten, don't let her do this!"

I stood up and ran to the apparition of the girl and tried to grab her arm, but the knife same down onto Ryou's heart. Ryou didn't scream, just fell lifeless in her son's arms.

"RYOU! RYOU!"

I ran to hug Ryou's body when I saw Malik enter. "Malik, no! Don't come in here!"

The girl jumped behind Malik and wrapped her arms around his neck. Malik's muffled screams filled the cell. The girl pulled back and I could see a black cord around Malik's neck. Malik struggled to breathe as he tried to fight her off. His face turned color and his breathing became raspy. He fell to his knees, his throat gurgling and choking. I tried to grab the girl off of Malik, but my hands went right through her.

"Come…on….stop……..breathing…" the girl grunted. Malik fell to the floor after a last whimper. I could hear Malik draw his last breath as he collapsed on Ryou's body.

Anubis approached me and chuckled. "Your hikaris will die. My revenge on you will be complete."

I fell to the floor as the apparition faded. I was going to lose Ryou. Malik would die. I couldn't keep this from Marik.

"Bakura, Ryou shall bear you a daughter. She will be strong. She will strike you without mercy. Never shall she waver in her quest to destroy you. Evil incarnate."

I…have a daughter. A little girl. I was going to be a father! Wait…'bear you a daughter?' That means……Marik is the other father! My own child was going to destroy me and Ryou? That girl in the apparition was a monster! She told Malik to stop breathing. She killed them both.

"Ryou shall bear Marik a son. He may be weak, but the weak are easy to control. The weak are easy to manipulate. I shall control that part of Cinetti's soul."

I growled at Anubis. "You put that maniac's soul into my children?"

"Cinetti was split in two..a light…and a dark. Marik's son is weak, he is the light. At this very minute, he is weak. The light may not survive, but that is not my problem if it doesn't."

"Marik's child may die?"

"That is no concern of mine, Bakura. You should be worried about yourself. As the children grow, they will become stronger until they can destroy you completely. They will destroy all who you care about….even your lover, Ryou."

I stood up furiously. "You leave my Ryou alone! I beat you before alone, I can do it again!" I didn't have my Ring on! I tried to conjure up my spells, but it wouldn't work.

Anubis created a white ball of energy and threw it at me sending me to the wall shaking.

"I told you. I have the power in your dreams now. Try to hurt me, Bakura." He slowly advanced to me. "I will break you, Bakura. Will break you like I did when I whipped you and left you hanging all night. I will break you like I took …….well, there's no need to go into details now. I'm sure you will never forgot what I had taken from you in the past. I took what I desired from you. All that was left was a body broken and beaten like the way you look now."

Tears ran down my face as I remembered. "I remember what you took……and I hated you for it. Now you're going to take Ryou away from me? You're going to manipulate our children? I love those babies! I will not let you harm them!"

Anubis threw me into the wall again. "You have no choice. You have only one alternative. To destroy the evil inside Ryou, you must destroy them."

I whimpered. I couldn't do that to those lives. How can I willingly destroy something I always wanted? Someone I loved even before I saw them?

"I will not destroy my children, Anubis. Even though only one of them is mine, I feel like both of them are a part of me and I will not let you harm them."

"If you do not destroy them, they will destroy you."

"Then let them destroy me. I'd rather die than do that to my own flesh and blood, especially my little girl."

"Then let me give you the Kiss of Death." Anubis crashed his lips against mine completely surprising me. I grabbed his black cloak and tried to push him off of me. He ended the kiss as I began to struggle. "Your greatest joy will be the source of your deepest sorrow, Bakura."

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Bakura's POV

I woke up quickly panting heavily. My face was all covered in sweat. My own pulse was running quickly. I jumped out of bed and ran to the bathroom. The cold water that splashed against my face woke me up. Was that a dream? I ran to the bedroom again and saw Ryou sleeping on her side. With a gentle dexterity, I touched her belly. The one baby kicked my hand and Ryou winced in her sleep. This child was going to kill Ryou? And Malik? Ryou smiled in her sleep content and ignorant of the danger posed to her.

I touched the other side of the belly and I could feel the other baby nuzzle into my hand.

Ryou, your life is in danger…and I don't know if I can tell you.

I ran to Marik and Malik's room. I opened the door slightly to see Marik leaning over Malik kissing his hikari. Malik was going to die….and his yami didn't even know it. I watched as the yami kissed Malik's tan chest eliciting giggles and moans from Malik. Malik's eyes were closed in complete contentment as the yami placed light kisses down his chest.

"I love you, yami," Malik moaned as Marik stopped his attack of kisses and pulled Malik close to him kissing his neck. I knocked on the door regretting I had to stop their session.

"Come in. Bakura? It's 6am. What are you doing up?" Malik asked as he smiled into

Marik's assault.

"I need a private yami moment, here, Malik. Go lay down with Ryou for a little."

Malik grabbed a towel beside the bed and wrapped it around him. Obviously, Marik and Malik were getting intimate….again. Marik never seems to get enough of Malik. I know I can't blame him. Malik's just like Ryou.

"Marik, you and I have to talk to Yami today."

"Why? You look really shaken. What did you see?"

"My dream. Anubis came into my dream."

Marik shrugged. "Osiris comes in mine sometimes, but…"

"No, baka! I mean Anubis! The one who took over Anzu and kidnapped our hikaris?"

Marik grabbed the Millenium Rod. "Where is he? I'll get him!"

"He's in the Shadow Realm. You, me, and Yami have to go to the Shadow Realm. If we don't, Ryou and Malik will die."

Next Chappie: Malik takes Ryou to the hospital for the ultrasound and the yamis go to the Shadow Realm.