Yu-Gi-Oh! Fan Fiction ❯ Crazy for you ❯ Something you need to know ( Chapter 15 )

[ T - Teen: Not suitable for readers under 13 ]

A/N: Well... I'm desperately trying to guide this story towards the end, now it seems to be many chapters away but I'm determined to get there eventually. I don't know why I brought this up but it's been on my mind lately. I have a goal (happy yet non-fairy tale like ending) but I just have some trouble getting there, mainly because I don't know how to do that... I'll figure it out though :) On with the story!


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Ryou sighed. It wasn't an annoyed sigh, it was one of bliss. He had just been woken up by Mariku who drew slow patterns on his back. Ryou had his back turned to the other but as he felt a slight push on his shoulder, he flipped on his stomach. Neither said a word, no 'Good morning' or anything but the silence was much nicer anyway.
Ryou had his eyes still closed though he was wide awake. A circle, an eight, some pattern he couldn't make out, a finger traced down his spine, then up again. Ryou moaned silently against the pillow and he felt Mariku remove his hair to the side and kiss the back of his neck. Ryou smiled and slowly turned around to face Mariku. He yawned a bit and noticed something flash through Mariku's eyes but it was gone as soon as it came so he wasn't really sure if it had been there in the first place.

“Good morning, Mariku.” He could have sworn that the other actually smiled to him but it faded behind a smirk quickly.

“Morning sweets.” He leaned down and placed a kiss on Ryou's neck, which tickled and made Ryou giggle and squirm. “God, you're the most sensitive person I know.”

Ryou just smiled and got up. “Not only that, I'm also sweet, nice and innocent.”

Mariku smirked. “I know. That's such a turn on, come here.” He pulled Ryou back, making him 'eep', and kissed him, this time fully on the lips. Ryou didn't exactly have any complains, except that he had meant to go to have breakfast and not stay here and be molested by Mariku.

They pulled apart and Ryou tried to frown at the hand that had once again somehow gotten in his shirt, but not succeeding to pull even a frown off, he just settled at staring at it before turning to Mariku, who just looked like the picture boy for innocence.

“What?” The blond asked, moving his fingers along Ryou's side.

“Just wondering how your hand always ends up in my shirt...”

Mariku raised a suggestive eyebrow. “Would you like it in your pants instead?” Ryou turned very red, that kind of color that left all tomatoes to shame.

“I-I didn't mean that...” He shuttered. “I just, uh...Never mind, I'm going to have breakfast.” He meant to leave but was stopped when Mariku grabbed the back of his shirt.

“Why can't you stay?”

“Um... Because I'm hungry?” Ryou tried and Mariku sighed but let go in defeat.

“Fine, I can just stare at your ass when you walk away.”

“Perv...” Ryou mumbled and left to kitchen, he found Ishizu there, drinking coffee and scanning through the newspaper. She lifted her eyes to look at him, smiling a bit before going back to her paper again. Ryou dug out some toast and put it in the toaster, pouring himself some coffee too. He sat next to Ishizu and glanced at the newspaper.

“Anything interesting?”

“Not really... Did you sleep well?” She asked, turning away from the paper.

“Yeah...” Ryou said almost dreamily. It had been nice, curling up in the arms of the other after sleeping alone for those few days.

“Of course he did.” Came the smug voice of Mariku as he joined the other two.

“Look who decided to join us, mister I lost my shirt. Morning brother, I trust you too slept well?” Ishizu said, earning a glare from Mariku and causing Ryou to look at his direction. He indeed didn't have his shirt on, funny how he missed that back in their room...

“You shut up, sister and give me some coffee.”

“Help yourself, I have to stop by work.”

“But it's Saturday.” Ryou pointed out.

“I know... Bye, it shouldn't take long.” Ishizu left, leaving the two to their breakfast. Ryou took the newspaper and started to flip it through. Mariku got his coffee and sat opposite to Ryou. The weather seemed to be getting colder in the next few days but that was about the most interesting fact he could find from the paper.

“What does it say?” Mariku asked, gesturing towards the newspaper. Ryou glanced at him but quickly turned his eyes away.

“The weather is changing... It's going to get colder and maybe snowing.”

“I hate winter, it's too damn cold.”

“That's true but the snow is beautiful.” Ryou smiled softly at the thought of snow.

“What's so beautiful about some white and cold stuff?”

“Well... It's just the way it makes things look like... It's like the nature can rest and everything looks so peaceful and the way the snow glows in the sun, a bit like small diamonds... It doesn't look cold at all...”

Mariku shook his head at Ryou's dreamy expression. “You're a strange person, snow is not that great, it gets everywhere and makes things cold and slippery.”

“But you're just looking at the negative side of things... I like snow.” Ryou concluded and went back to his breakfast. He nippled happily at his toast and sipped the coffee.

Soon Ishizu came back, she look ready to kill someone and she actually reminded Ryou of Mariku in a strange way... She stomped into the kitchen, grabbed the doorknob of one of the cupboards and banged it closed a few times, while mumbling curses under her breath. Ryou and Mariku stared at her and then glanced at each other.

“Um, Ishizu? Are you alright?” Ryou asked carefully. She turned to look at him with a big, fake smile.

“Yes! Of course I am.” She chirped cheerfully.

They somehow didn't find that very believable though...

“What's wrong?” Ryou took it up to himself to find out what bothered now, it didn't seem that everything was ok at all.

“Oh it's nothing.” Ishizu waved her hand. “My boss just called me to work so he could make a move on me, isn't that funny? Stupid bastard...” The last part was mumbled but still audible.

“Why are you so pissed? You should have taken that as a chance to get a raise.” Mariku said and sipped his coffee. Ishizu glared at him, she could sure glare if she needed to.

“I'm just not like that! He doesn't interest me the least that way, and besides, the guy is an ass.”

Mariku just shrugged at that. “So? I'm an ass too but you still love me.”

“We are related by blood so that's different. It's kind of like I'm obligated to love you.” Ishizu said crossing her arms. They almost sound like siblings now... Ryou smiled to himself, feeling happy that they got along better these days.

“You truly wound me sister.” Mariku said, holding his chest with fake hurt. Ishizu rolled her eyes and Ryou laughed a bit to their antics.


Later that evening they all settled to the living room to watch a movie that was on TV. Mariku who hadn't seen all that many movies didn't know what he got himself into when he promised that they could all watch it together. The movie was a bit chick-flick-ish romance story. Ishizu and Ryou thought it was touching and were sharing a box of kleenex, while Mariku was kind of bored.

“Oh my god, don't die...” Ishizu whispered as the things were starting to get dramatic and Ryou nodded.

“Yeah, she can't leave him...”

“Dear gods... I feel like I'm with a bunch of girls...” Mariku muttered and both of the “girls” glared at him.

“That's only because you lack emotions or are too manly to show any.” Ishizu stated. “Hand me the kleenex, Ryou.” Ryou handed the box to her.

At the end of the movie “the girls” were crying and smiling happily because no one had died after all and all ended well, the two lovers got each other and all that.

“Ok, that's it! I want to see a horror movie and it'll better be really bloody one too!” Mariku had had enough of this.

“You're just bitching because you didn't happen to like the movie.” Ishizu pointed out and it was true without a doubt but she got glared at anyway.

“I don't bitch, you two are the only ones here who actually can bitch.” He got a now empty kleenex box thrown at him for that, it was Ryou and his aim was surprisingly good. “HEY!”

“Will you shut up if I go and rent us a horror?” Ishizu asked. The time wasn't that much so she still had the time to go.

“Yes.”

So she actually went out while mumbling under her breath about bitching little brothers. She came back with a movie, which had the most bloody picture in the cover and the summary promised gore.

“I don't really like horrors so I think I'm going to bed already...” Ryou said and Ishizu was about to turn in too but they were stopped by Mariku.

“You are not going anywhere. You made me sit through that-” He pointed at the TV “-so you will watch this whether you liked it or not.”

The two sighed in defeat and sat back down on the couch. The movie went on and certain people hoped they still had some kleenex so that they could use it to cover their eyes with and stuff it in their ears. Mariku didn't seem to mind, not the movie or the fact that Ryou was curled as close to him as he could get, hiding away from the evil movie. Ishizu hid behind a pillow but watched with strange fascination anyway.

Ryou had never been into horror, maybe some books but not movies, but he was glad that he had Mariku to bury his face into when it got too much for him, and the other didn't seem to mind at all. Actually he seemed to enjoy the huddled up Ryou in his side, more than the actual movie.

Finally it ended and Ryou uncurled himself much to Mariku's disappointment, he stopped his way to their room though when he saw that it was very dark in there, seeing that it was late already. Ishizu had left to bed once the end credits had started rolling.

“What's wrong?” Asked Mariku when he saw Ryou's hesitation, finished turning the TV off and went to see what was the matter.

“It's kind of dark in there...” Ryou said softly, making Mariku chuckle. He wrapped his arms around the other boy and leaned his head on his shoulder.

“Don't worry, I'll protect you from the evil darkness.”

They walked into the room like that and Ryou was quick to turn on the night lamp. He sighed in relief when the darkness was chased away. He yawned a bit and let himself fall onto the bed with Mariku, who wrapped the covers over them.

“Good night.” Ryou sighed contently when the other kissed his neck for good night.

“'Night sweets.”

Ryou reached out to turn off the light, he hesitated a bit before pressing the switch but then he remembered that he was fully safe and pressed the light out. He wiggled a bit to get to a better position, causing Mariku to grunt, and tried to get some sleep.

Then he heard a sound and his eyes snapped open again and he looked around, not really seeing anyone in the darkness.

“That's just Ishizu...” Mariku mumbled tiredly against his shoulder. “She has a nasty habit to make phone calls during the night.”

“Oh... Do you know who she's calling to?”

“No... Let's just get some sleep and worry about it later, ok?”

Ryou nodded, being quite sure that Mariku could feel it when they were so close. He closed his eyes again but he couldn't help but wonder who was the mystery person Ishizu was calling to, in this hour no less. The hour indicated that it was possibly a boyfriend but Ryou decided not to venture too deep in it. If she felt like telling them, she would. He just hoped that Mariku wouldn't get tired of the late night calls and interrogate her about it, that would just worsen their already a bit fragile relationship. Not now when things were starting to look up for them.

Eventually Ryou fell asleep as he listened to Mariku's steady breathing. It was just so calming to feel and hear the other breath that he could no longer keep his thoughts gathered so he was unable to ponder things anymore. So he just gave up and let sleep consume him.


The next morning went like every other one. Ryou wanted to ask about the phone call from Ishizu but thought better of it and decided not to. Mariku seemed to be kind of grumpy that morning for some reason, he didn't say a word, not even to Ryou though normally he at least said 'Good morning'. Ishizu looked at him worriedly but didn't say anything about it. Well, not to him but she did talk to Ryou about it when Mariku wasn't around. The other male had went to his and Ryou's shared room.

“Ryou? Do you know what's wrong with Mariku?” She asked carefully and Ryou frowned a bit, having been wondering that himself.

“No... He hasn't said anything to me whole morning...” He said quietly, wondering if it was something he did or said... “Maybe he's just having a bad day.” Ryou smiled hopefully. “We should just let him be.”

Ishizu nodded. “You're probably right...”

They spoke nothing of it the following few hours but when Mariku didn't come out of the room, Ryou started to get worried, even though he had said that Mariku just had a bad day, everyone has those, he couldn't help but worry that something was wrong. So when he hadn't seen the other since that morning and it was nearly lunch time already, he decided to go and see what was wrong. Ryou just hoped it wasn't anything serious as he peeked into the room carefully.

Mariku was lying on the bed and appeared to be sleeping, Ryou sighed in relief, he had just been tired and slept through the morning. He was about to go when Mariku opened his purple eyes to look at him. Ryou stopped and after a moment of hesitation sat on the edge of the bed, smiling a bit awkwardly at the other.

“Hi...”

“...hi.”

“What are you doing here all by yourself?” Ryou asked and Mariku turned his eyes away.

“Thinking.”

“About what?” Ryou edged a bit closer.

“Nothing...”

Ryou sighed. Why did he have to go all difficult now? “So you have been thinking about nothing here all day?” No answer. “Somehow I find that hard to believe.”

Mariku turned his eyes at him again and grabbed his arm. “Come closer.” He told and pulled Ryou lying next to him. Then he turned so that he was lying on top of the other, careful not to crush or suffocate the smaller male. He wrapped his arms possessively around him and mumbled against his shoulder. “I think I need to tell you something...”

“Ok...” Ryou too hugged the other, feeling that he needed the close physical contact.

“But I should warn you that it's not going to be pretty... You might want to hate me.”

“I could never do that...” Ryou assured and held on a bit tighter to further reassure the other.

Mariku 'hmph'ed. “Don't make promises you can't keep. I just... though you should know... my past...”


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A/N: OK... That chap. was just because I though some emotional development would be necessary seeing all the stuff I got planned. Part of the next chapter is emotional development too but then we'll get on with the plot, which I just spent the night going through in my head, it didn't leave me alone. Damn plot... It'll take from three to four chapters, plus epilogue to finish this.

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