Yu-Gi-Oh! Fan Fiction ❯ Business Hours ❯ Business hours-Chapter 20 ( Chapter 21 )

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Here is chapter 20 to "Business Hours" I hope you like it! ENJOY!!!

There is never a problem so awful that someone can't add any guilt to it to make it worse...that's how Ryou felt he was slightly non-responsive he usually was when put in a situation like this one as Eric continued to stroke his length bringing him ever closer to the edge as he lay there begging for more not even realizing he was doing it until he screamed releasing his seed into Eric's hand who continued to look at him as if he was some type of rare jewel worth millions. He let out a choked sob as he tried to pull away from Eric but found his limbs not responding to his wishes as he settled for simply laying there unmoving as Eric held him affectionately although Ryou hated it.

Eric smiled, kissing Ryou's flushed cheeks, and looking at his tired young eyes. "Good little Ryou...my pretty little slave. Would you like a bath and a nap? Would that make a good reward for being such a good boy?" he said running his hands gently over Ryou's body, feeling every part of him once again. "Would you like that?"

Yugi's father chuckled. "Good boys get rewards...bad boys live in hell. Which are you Ryou? Good boy or bad boy?" he asked, roughly pulling Ryou's chin to force him to look at him. "Are you a good boy, who does what he's told, for his loving masters...or a bad boy who deserves punishments?"

"I'm a good boy master..." Ryou said slightly breathless as Yugi's father let go of his chin. "...tired..." He mumbled not really caring if he got a bath, he wanted rest he wanted to just lay there and rest. Eric opened a door on the left revealing a bathroom as he and Yugi's father left him alone in the room. Ryou began to get up not noticing the stinging pain in his legs as he pulled on his pants and ripped open shirt as he leaned against the wall feeling so lost and dirtier than he had ever felt in his entire life. He looked at the half opened window. However, he wasn't so sure about leaving...Yugi would be punished if he did leave and he didn't even know if it was worth all of the pain to escape. But he had to try, he staggered into the bathroom turning on the water as closing the door so it would seem that he was showering, as he got up opening the window fully as he began to squeeze through the bars he fell from the window a good ten feet as he hit the ground painfully and even though he was outside he still had to escape from the house. He couldn't run it hurt to much as he walked down the dark alleyway taking note of the apartment. He also noticed the neighborhood...it was mainly a string of bars and clubs he would be lucky if he didn't run into any drunken bastards tonight...he needed that luck he didn't have the strength to fight off anyone right now.

Bakura sighed, shaking his head. He was in an awful neighborhood in lord only knew what part of town. Bars....whorehouses...and not a single clue as to where Marik was. He kicked a can as he walked, passing the first signs that evening was coming, a drunk on the street.

"Damnit Marik where the hell are you?!" he yelled in frustration. If there was one thing Marik seemed good at, it was disappearing at the MOST inopportune times.

Ryou leaned against an alley wall he had barely gotten half a block away from the apartment before he was almost completely exhausted. He was surprised he still had the slightest bit of rebellion left in him to actually leave, nevertheless he was still broken and hurt worse than he ever had been in his entire life. He was about to walk further but collapsed on his knees he couldn't move anymore his legs felt numb as he breathed heavily, his fever had gotten worse no doubt and he felt weaker by the second as tears fell from his face, he wanted to go home...he wanted to go home so badly but he couldn't move anymore it all hurt too much. He passed out after a few moment's.

Bakura continued to walk down the string of bar's and clubs calling Yami for help to look for Marik as he slipped into an alleyway to relax a moment and think of where Marik would most likely be he looked to his right seeing an unconscious boy. Upon closer inspection he relished the unconscious boy was Ryou and quickly lifted him from the ground trying to shake the boy awake. He could see the rope burns around his neck, wrists, and through his torn shirt as he called Yami up to pick him up. Yami took Ryou from Bakura's arms as he headed toward the car to get him some help he noticed the boy's eyes were open though…he wasn't unconscious.

"Ryou?" Yami said softly

"He's unconscious Yami." Bakura said

"No he's not…his eyes are open…" Yami waved his hand in front of Ryou's face but he didn't respond he also repeated his name a few times but got nothing.

"What's wrong with him?" Bakura asked

"I don't know but right now I think it's best we get him some help." Yami said handing Ryou to Bakura.

"I'll handle Ryou you go get Marik if you can find him." He told Yami to find Marik as he took the car to take Ryou home or a hospital.

Luckily Yami had more luck finding Marik then Bakura did as he saw him leaned up against the wall seemingly lost in thought as he approached him carefully not knowing what current mood the other was in.

"Marik?" Yami asked cautiously.

Marik blinked a bit, looking up to Yami. "hmm?" he said looking back down again and sighing. "Did you have any luck?" he mumbled, worried about Ryou...worried about Yugi. Although not as much as he was worried about Ryou. He had been there quite a while...and even had a few drinks at first...but they had only given him a slight buzz, as he had spent most of his time thinking about what awful things his new love...HIS Ryou was having to go through...and it hurt. It hurt that someone could do that to Ryou...or Yugi...to anyone. But more so, Marik had left to calm down...after he'd left the apartment he'd felt like he should tear through town on a mad killing spree...and then he felt like he could cry for days...it was all mixed emotions.

"We found Ryou and..." Yami was about to continue but Marik grabbed his shirt and started bombarding him with questions and soon Marik blew right past him toward the apartment.

"Marik wait!" Yami called after him, he managed to grab the other's jacket as Marik struggled slightly to get away. "I need you to calm down a bit, something's wrong with him, he doesn't even seem to notice where he is right now and we don't need you scaring the hell out of him...I understand how much you want to just hold him but for now just be calm about it until he's a little bit more aware...all right?" Yami said soft but sternly.

Marik sighed after a moment nodding. "Ok...." he mumbled. "Do you know where he was? I want to kill the bastard that did that to him..." he said angrily. "I can't stand it!" he said, tugging at his own blonde hair. "It's been making me crazy! How could someone be SICK enough to do that?!" he said biting his lip and looking away, once again feeling a rage inside of him...and the urge to cry.

"We know where the apartment's are...we think...Ryou mumbled it so it might be nothing at all." Yami said noticing the other's actions he had never seen him so distressed before, he was usually so carefree and light but it all seemed gone now. "Yugi is still with them unfortunately I don't know how Ryou got out at all...in time I'm sure he'll be able to tell us something." Yami said softly as they both stood for a moment before walking swiftly back to the apartment.

When they arrived, Bakura was already there, not finding Marik but not needing too obviously. Malik and Ryou were both asleep. The young white haired teen curled up against Malik's chest his body jerking every so often in his sleep as Malik unconsciously tightened his hold on his friend.

Bakura sighed. "They're both beat...I came home and they were like this....Ryou was crying in his sleep for a while...but snuggled closer to Malik and stopped..." he mumbled shaking his head.

Marik sighed. "Ryou..." he said shaking his head at the visible marks on his neck from the ropes. "God...what happened?" he said shocked. "You guys...look what they've done to him! God only knows what they're doing to Yugi as we speak...we've got to get him out of there..."

"...I know..." Yami said trailing off slightly "But how is beyond me..." He said motioning them into the living room although Marik was a little reluctant to leave "I know you don't want to leave him Marik but let him rest he'll probably be better in the morning." Yami said almost as if he was trying to convince himself. "Unfortunately we know nothing of that building and with me and Bakura looking like Ryou and Yugi it probably wouldn't be a good idea for us to check it out, so I think you should go take a look Marik tomorrow after we talk to Ryou...if he'll talk to us." Yami said softly.

Marik nodded a bit. "Sure...if he'll talk..." he mumbled shaking his head. "God...I can't believe..." he said shaking his head more.

"It's ok...I know..." Bakura said patting Marik's back. "It's really awful that someone out there is sick like that..."

Marik sighed. "Tomorrow then...but what do we do until then?"

Bakura shrugged. "Hope nothing bad happens to Yugi I guess..."

Yami covered his mouth, he wanted to scream but he wouldn't he needed to stay calm for the greater good. "Even if he doesn't talk tomorrow, you can still scope out the apartment's we found Ryou in that general area so me and Bakura can go looking around...someone else is taking these pictures for them and if were lucky maybe they'll need a new photographer or mistake Bakura for Ryou...if were luckily." Yami said.

The three sat in silence for a moment until a scream broke them all from their thoughts Marik being the first one up running to the room seeing the youth in the corner of the room trembling his face buried in his hands as Malik was trying to calm him down but Ryou only pushed himself further against the wall and refused to look at him.

Marik stepped next to Malik "Ryou...Ryou calm down...no one is going to hurt you." he whispered softly, with Malik. "C'mon Ryou...it's ok. It's just Malik and Marik. We're worried..." he added as Malik nodded.

"Please Ryou...talk to us...it's ok...no one is going to hurt you. Calm down."

Bakura bit his lip, not sure, he was willing to watch, if Ryou didn't calm down and help Marik calm down himself. Marik looked like he was about to cry.

"Ryou please...it's me...Marik...you know..." Marik said softly. "Please calm down...tell us what happened...Where were you? How can we save Yugi?" he asked, scooting closer to Ryou slowly.

Ryou pushed himself further against the wall as if he wanted to go through it, again hiding his face in his hands. "Please...I'm sorry I won't run away again I swear...no more please." Ryou whimpered curling up slightly as if to ward off a blow. He flinched when Marik touched his cheek as Ryou began to cry pushing the hand away. "Please..." Ryou mumbled standing up and sidestepping away from both Marik and Malik. "I don't want too..." He said softly sliding top the floor once a safe distance from the people he wasn't sure he could trust. 'they look so sad, why? please just have them leave me alone I won't try to run away again I swear just leave me alone...I'm so tired' Ryou said to himself mentally as he rocked himself back and forth.

Marik sighed, scooting towards Ryou again. "Ryou...it's ok. We wont do anything you don't want to...but you need to know...we're not going to hurt you. Calm down...it's me Marik..." he said scooping Ryou into his arms slowly, so not to scare Ryou anymore than he had to. "Please...tell us what you can...Tell us how we can save Yugi...you know...Yugi? Where were you? How can we save him?" He said, in a soothing tone, stroking Ryou's hair and trying to calm him as best he could.

Ryou stiffened at the contact but did not attempt to move away. "Yugi's in the basement..." He said trailing off slightly and pulling away from Marik happy that he just let him go as he stumbled back to his corner.

Marik nodded. "Ryou...answer me another question ok? Which apartment? Do you remember the number?" he said reaching forward and gently touching Ryou's hand. "There is more than one apartment with a basement there Ryou...do you remember which one?" Marik said again. "We're going to save Yugi...but we need your help...we need you to tell us what you can...ok?"

"I...don't know...I fell from the window...maybe the second floor?" Ryou said trembling slightly as he pulled his hand away form Marik. "Please don't touch me, you said you wouldn't if I answered you...so please..." Ryou said softly looking as if he would cry again.

The apartments were like two stories they had an upstairs and a downstairs like their own apartment's and the first floor apartment's had basement's. Yami remembered that much at least. "That's enough...we should leave him alone...like we promised until we know what else we can do...hopefully Yugi won't be in the same state and he can help us with Ryou...he's gone through this before." Yami said wanting to cry himself.

Marik nodded. "Thank you Ryou..." he said pulling a blanket from the bed, and a pillow, offering them to Ryou. "Here...please...rest. You look awful...please Ryou...I'm begging you to rest up...try and remember me...I love you..." he said placing the pillow and blanked a few inches from Ryou. He looked at Yami sadly, near tears. "I want to find this bastard now...I have a few things I need to 'take up' with him..." he growled, stalking from the room before the tears fell.

"I just want to be normal..." Ryou said softly as he laid his head down on the pillow and cried into it softly.

Yami left the room going to Marik who was currently trying his best to fight off the tears that came through his tightly closed eyes. Yami embraced his friend from behind even though the other stiffened in his arms before relaxing and taking the other's hand strongly. Eventually Marik allowed his emotions to fall on Yami's shoulder as Yami rubbed his back soothingly allowing his own tears to fall upon his friends back...just seeing Ryou and how he was made Yami think the most horrible things about what Yugi had gone through and what he is probably going through, they didn't deserve this at all.

"We'll get them Marik I promise." Yami said softly through all his despair and tears trying to be strong.

Yugi washed himself quietly in the basement bathroom, sighing. "Ryou's ok...that's all that matters..." he mumbled looking up at his reflection in the mirror, before looking away immediately. "It was too good to last...being away from this. Father's right...it's the best I deserve...Yami will be better off without me. Malik would be less stressed..." he sighed returning to his blankets on the floor, covering himself up. His father had provided him, later the previous evening, some new clothes...well it really was just an oversized white tee-shirt that easily covered Yugi to his knees. Even then, he felt naked. He always felt naked around his father. "I'm so sorry Ryou...b-but you're ok...he said he was going to leave you alone...and give you hot food and baths...a bed...m-maybe he'll even let you go!" Yugi said, trying to be cheerful to himself. "You could go home to Malik..." he added, looking glumly to the plush carpeting of the floor. "I wish I could leave..."

Eric immediately grew cross when he hear of Ryou's disappearance, he was sure the little slave wouldn't have the guts to run out on them...looks like Yugi wasn't that important to him after all. He looked to Yugi's father who looked equally displeased.

"You take care of your son, I'm gonna see if the little tramp is still around town...maybe he just ran off if I find him know that I'll bring him back." Eric said slinging on his coat and walking out the door as Yugi's father went downstairs seeing his son instantly sit up afraid to repeat anything they did last night.

"Your little friend escaped...you better pray we don't find him and once Eric comes back even if he doesn't bring the little bitch with him we're going to have some fun. You will pay the price for his disobedience." He growled walking back upstairs leaving Yugi alone.

Yugi smiled softly after his father left, before hugging the pillow he'd been laying on. "Thank god! Ryou got away!" he said smiling and wiping a few tears away. "Oh Ryou...I'm so glad...I just hope Eric doesn't catch you..."

Bakura sighed looking around the back alleys of the apartment complex, looking for possible basement entries. "Damn...there's GOT to be a way to get in..." he mumbled kicking a brick wall and sighing. He grumbled and continued walking, before slipping on a beer bottle and falling to the ground. Bakura grumbled, wincing as he pushed himself up.

Eric saw a white haired figure slumped over slightly on the ground wincing in pain. He immediately assumed it was Ryou walking up to him and before Bakura had time to react Eric thrust his foot out making contact with his face and slamming his head against the wall with a hard thud. Eric smiled slightly as he looked at Ryou picking him up slinging him over his shoulder as he took the back ways home so not to be suspected as he walked inside the apartment with a satisfied smirk. As he opened the basement door throwing the boy down the stairs as he toppled to the bottom groaning loudly. "We'll play later Ryou." he said shutting and locking the door.

"What the fuck was that about?!" Bakura groaned, rubbing his head, feeling a bit dizzy and still slightly tired. "Bastard...I ought to fuckin kick the shit out of you..." he mumbled looking around. "Basement..." he said blinking, before realizing, what Eric had called him. "....Yugi? Are you down here?" he said softly, looking around before finding Yugi curled up under some blankets just waking up and staring at him.

"Yugi? Are you ok?" Bakura said scooting forward and wincing at the movement, having fallen poorly and hurt his leg.

Yugi blinked slightly. "What...what are you doing here?! Ryou you were supposed to have gotten away!" he said shaking his head, tears welling up in his eyes.

Bakura blinked and smiled a bit. "I'm not Ryou. He's at home with Malik..." he said as Yugi blinked and gasped. "Bakura?! Oh god..." he said in disbelief. "You can't be here! Eric and my father...you cant..."

"Why can't I be here? I was looking for 'here' in the first place to get you out...whoever threw me down here just saved me a lot of trouble that's all...they probably think I'm Ryou but I'm afraid they have another thing coming." Bakura said as he moved his leg slightly it was probably sprained but he has worked with less before running around with Marik would give someone an experience like that.

"Are you okay?" Bakura finally asked "Well as okay as one could be in this situation that is." he added softly.

Yugi frowned. "I'm fine...is Ryou ok? I'm so sorry...I tried to tell him...I didn't want..." he sighed burying his face in his hands. "I'm so sorry...It's all my fault.." Yugi said sniffling, fresh tears in his eyes. "Bakura...I'm sorry....are you ok? You look like you've hurt yourself...." he added, getting up and helping his friend onto the pile of blankets. "Here...it's more comfortable...although not by much..." Yugi said softly, sitting back down on the pile as well, pulling the neckline of the oversized shirt back over his shoulder.

Bakura frowned and pulled Yugi into his arms petting his hair softly. "I'm fine, my leg being hurt is not a big deal I slipped on a bottle in the alley they had nothing to do with it I was just clumsy...and I know you probably did everything you could to help Ryou but he's safe at home now." Yugi's distress concerned Bakura he was happy that Yugi wasn't in the same state of mind as Ryou and didn't plan on telling Yugi the truth about Ryou until they were out of this situation. "Ryou's fine." Bakura said content holding and comforting the smaller boy suddenly his cell phone went off as he answered it quickly.

"Hello?" He asked softly hoping the bastards upstairs didn't hear the phone go off he almost forgot he had it on him.

Yami grumbled. "Where are you? I've been looking all over the place...I finally gave up because I didn't want to get too close to the apartments...I don't want them seeing me and thinking Yugi was trying to get away. He's been though enough!" Yami said voice shaking a bit, from sorrow and frustration ant being unable to help his lover. He sighed as he paced the living room of the apartments too, having given up on finding Bakura.

"I'm in the basement with Yugi you jackass." Bakura grumbled back. "Some guy named Eric apparently thought I was Ryou and kicked my face into a nearby wall...but the apartments are the right ones I can assure you of that...I believe I can take them if it comes to that they still think I'm Ryou too..." Bakura paused handing the phone to Yugi knowing the little one would want to talk to his lover.

Yami perked up at that. "Yugi!? Is he ok? God Bakura tell me he's ok!" he said nearly shaking the phone as if it were a person in front of him. "Maybe if he talked to Ryou, it might help too...." he said, now going nearly a mile a minute. "Bakura is he ok?!"

"He's fine talk to him." Bakura said handing him the phone as standing up a bit shakily from the slip in the alley and the fall down the stairs but managed to stagger around as Yugi was near tears talking to Yami. He looked around seeing a small window as he looked out it seeing the house across the way address. "Tell him we are in the apartment directly across from 234 Ousuma apartment's, directly across no mistake at all okay?" He said as he sat down. waiting for Yugi to stop talking to Yami but giving them enough time. Yugi finally reluctantly gave the phone back. "Did you get where we are? Cause if you did I need you to hall ass here as fast as you can cause once they even try to lay a finger on Yugi or me I will not be responsible for my actions." He said irritated at his situation.

Yugi smiled at Bakura lightly. "I'm glad you're here..." he mumbled, hearing footsteps, and glancing away, wondering if his father was coming. "However, you shouldn't be here...what if something happens? What if father does something? You're hurt..." Yugi said hugging a pillow. "Eric and my father...that's two against you...either one of them could fling me like a rag doll..." he said beginning to freak out a bit. He didn't want Ryou to see his awful life...and he DEFINATLY didn't want Bakura, who he'd only known for a few days to see it. Yugi sniffled at the thought of how Ryou was surely traumatized by the whole ordeal.

Bakura placed a hand on Yugi's head, "I'm fine really, besides Yami is probably on his way over anyway I can handle myself quite nicely even if it is two against one...I will at least until he gets here." Bakura said happy that the footsteps passed the basement door and did not go through it but he wouldn't count on being left alone too much longer.

Yami went into Marik's room waking the other up quickly. "I know where Yugi is Bakura's stuck there with him, we need to go now!" He said pulling Marik from the bed. Who slightly stumbled to his feet as he followed Yami out the door.

Yugi smiled a bit. "I...I take it he's coming soon then? I....I can go home soon?" he said perking up almost instantly. "I want to go home so badly! I hate it here! Father is awful!" he said hugging Bakura. "Thank you!" he said overjoyed at the fact that he was being rescued for the second time. "I can't wait to get out of here! I...I have to tell Malik how much I missed him! I'm sure he's worrying! and Yami!!" Yugi said grinning brightly.

Bakura smiled at him, "He misses you a lot too I'm sure." He said quitting when Yugi's father came downstairs looking between the two of them.

"Nice to see you again Ryou, I was surprised after everything you still had enough sanity left to leave..." He smiled at Yugi wickedly. "And you Yugi are naive to think I would leave such a precious toy as Ryou alone, he preformed quite nicely last night as did you my son." He said wanting to hurt Yugi by telling him that not only did he do as he was told it was all for nothing he had used Ryou anyway. "Unfortunately you both are in more trouble than I think you could ever get out of...all because of you Ryou." Yugi's father said smiling coyly at the two boys.

Yugi bit his lip, glaring at his father. "How could you?! You promised!" he said shaking his head and looking at Bakura. "Oh god..." he whispered. "I'm so sorry..." he continued. He wasn't apologizing to Bakura...but he was apologizing to Bakura about Ryou.

Bakura glared. He didn't want to blow his cover too soon, and start a whole big fight....because he really wasn't too sure how close Marik and Yami were...OR how long he could hold off two people. He didn't know if it would take two to kick his ass but he knew how many they were going to use. Therefore, he sat quietly, and glared, as did Yugi.

"You wanted to believe me Yugi I didn't make you...it was your own naive stupidity not mine." He said actually smiling at the glares he was getting as he looked at Ryou. "Still so strong..." He murmured slightly as he watched the fire burn in Ryou's eyes or what he thought to be Ryou's eyes. He heard the doorbell ring as Eric answered it. He waited silently for Eric to tell them to get lost so that he could start his fun but heard him scream as he started upstairs to investigate as he was tackled from behind immediately.

Yami grimaced slightly as Marik was beating the living hell out of Eric as he heard commotion from downstairs as he went into the basement seeing Yugi's father in much the same position as he went to Yugi embracing him immediately not able to just leave him alone considering Bakura and Marik could handle themselves.

Yugi hugged Yami and started crying softly. "Yami! I'm so sorry..." he sobbed, hugging him tightly. "You're not a dream right? Y-You're real...aren't you?" he said burying his face into Yami's shoulder and smiling a bit. "Even if you're a dream...I'm so happy..." he whispered.

Bakura growled and continued beating Yugi's father. "Fucking sick bastard! THIS ought to teach you about making child porn! SICKO!" he said kicking him in the ribs a few times.

Yugi cringed at each sound of his father being beaten, even though he was very happy about being let go...a part of him became more and more scared. "I'm going to be punished...." he whimpered clinging to Yami and shaking his head.

Yami held Yugi closer as Bakura threw Yugi's father clear across the room and Eric came crashing down the stairs obviously knocked out, however, Marik obviously not finished with him just yet. Yami covered Yugi's eyes as he took him upstairs letting his two friends take care of the two as he whispered reassurances in Yugi's ear.

"Never again Yugi, you will never have to even see him again as long as you live...and I'm not a dream." Yami said rocking Yugi soothingly patting his back not going to leave his two friends but not wanting Yugi to see the skeptical.

Marik stood up finally finished with a bloodied up Eric at his feet. As he glanced at Bakura who was also finishing up also as he stood to his feet a little shakily glaring at the unconscious father.

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