Yu-Gi-Oh! Fan Fiction ❯ Crazy for you ❯ An End ( Chapter 19 )

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

A/N: The last chapter! I feel kind of sad that it has to end... I've gotten so attached to this, I'm glad there's still the epilogue left :) It's hard to let go of something you've poured a part of your soul into... It wasn't this hard with my first longer story, I wonder why... It's so like me to get emotionally attached to something like this xD


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All three of them were camped on the floor, seeing the lack of furniture in the room, drinking the coffee Ryou had quickly gotten to them with his dad. No one had said a word after they sat down and the mood was kind of tense. Ryou was glancing between his father and Mariku, desperately trying to think of something to say, this silence was making him nervous. He needed something to brake the ice but what?

Ryou wasn't the only one the situation was making nervous, his father looked awkward and Mariku too looked to be on edge, which wasn't very good.

“So...” Ryou tried but trailed of, not having anything else to say. He gave Mariku the 'Say something!' -look but all he got as the 'What am I supposed to say?' -look.

“So...” His father started and paused for a bit. “Mariku, was it? Why exactly are you here?”

“Where?”

“In... here.” He gestured around him.

“Oh here. Because apparently I'm screaming crazy.” Mariku stated and sipped his coffee. Ryou's father just blinked.

“Oh I see...”

Ryou felt like slapping his forehead. This was going so... so great!

There was silence. Again.

Ryou felt like screaming.

Mariku felt like randomly throwing his cup against the wall.

Ryou's father felt like grabbing his son and running away from here.

Then all the three things mentioned above happened almost at the same time. Mariku randomly threw his cup to a wall, Ryou screamed at him for it and his father grabbed him to pull him to safety. The coffee dripped slowly down the wall.

“A-are you out of your mind?!” That was a stupid question but Mr. Bakura asked it anyway.

“Yes.”

“Please calm down, dad you can let go.” Ryou said and struggled out of his dad's grasp. “Mariku, what?”

“I had to do something! This shit is driving me up the wall!”

“You don't just throw stuff at the wall like that! And watch you language!” Mr. Bakura yelled. “Stop yelling at my son while your at it too!”

“Shut up old man!”

“Both of you, stop yelling!” Ryou yelled, he didn't do that too often so it shut up the other two and they both turned to stare at him. “Please, please act your age and shut up already! I don't need you two starting a fight.”

“He started it.” Pointed Mariku.

“Wha-? I did not!”

“I told you to act your age! Sheesh...” Ryou took a deep breath. “Sit down, both of you.” They did. “Good. No one is going to raise their voice from now on, got it?” Nods. “Wonderful! Now I'm going to take my father to my room, to rest and calm down. Mariku is going to stay here and calm himself down so we can continue this conversation after we get back, ok?”

His father rose from his spot and made his way out the door silently, like a good father he was. Ryou was about to follow him when he felt arms wrap around his waist from behind.

“I just realized how hot you are when you get all bossy like that.” Mariku muttered in his ear and nippled it, moving his hand up.

“Mmh... Mariku, not now...” Ryou breathed, knowing that he should go with his father.

“Ryou what-” Spoke the older man from the door before stopping on his tracks like he had hit a wall. His mouth hung slightly open at the suggestive scene in front of him. His sweet, innocent, precious son was in the arms of another man, tilting his head to a side, apparently enjoying himself, while the said another man had his nose buried in his hair and his hand was threatening to go somewhere it wasn't supposed to go at all, not in Mr. Bakura's opinion anyway.

They just stared at each other for a while before Ryou snapped out of his trance and pushed himself out of Mariku's arms. “Uh dad? I think we have something you should know...”

“I can see that.” He said, voice a bit hollow. “How long... um, how long have you been..?”

“A while now...” Ryou told quietly.

“Ok, I think I need my rest now.” He said, turning around on his spot and walking away.

“Dad wait-” Ryou tried but it was too late now. He turned to Mariku, looking helpless. “What are we going to do now?”

“How am I supposed to know?”

“Well, it's your fault he had to find out like that.”

Mariku crossed his arms. “It's not my fault if he has something against us.”

“He could have found out differently!” Ryou yelled and then closed his eyes for a second, this was really getting to him. “Sorry, I didn't mean to... I better go and try to talk with him.”

“Ryou wait.”

He turned back around. “What is it?”

“What if he doesn't except? What if he tells you to move back to Domino and never... never come back here again?”

Ryou stayed silent for a while. What if that really happened, what would he do? The answer was really simple now that he thought of it. “I would still stay with you. I already told you that I could never leave, no matter what, because I-” He bit his lip and looked down on his toes. “...Because I love you...” Ryou told quietly, looking carefully up when he got no answer nor reaction.

Mariku looked shocked, he just stood there, frozen silently in his place.

“I meant to tell you but I just... Please say something...”

“You... love me?” The other asked, as if not believing it was true.

“Yes. I can understand if you don't... I mean that if you can't...” Ryou tried to find his words. “If you don't love me back, I can understand but please just...” He felt tears threatening to fall.
“Just let me stay by your side...”

The other didn't say anything for some time but when he did, he sounded almost angry. “Ryou you idiot. If I didn't love you would I even stop to care if you left or not? Do you honestly think I would give a damn what your father thinks?”

Ryou looked at him, surprised. “Well... I guess you wouldn't...” His face broke into a bright and happy smile and he launched himself to Mariku who was a bit taken back by the sudden attachment on him. After he recovered from his first shock, Mariku too hugged the other tightly, closing his eyes and planting a kiss on top of Ryou's head. They stayed like that for a good while, before Ryou sighed and let go just enough so he could look the other in the eye.

“I guess I should go to calm my father down now...”

“Do you have to?”

“Yes, I do.” Ryou reached to kiss his lips quickly before fully pulling away. He had to talk to his father and work things out.


“Dad?” Ryou tried carefully to get his father's attention, who was lying on the couch. He turned his head to look at Ryou when he heard his voice.

“When were you going to tell me?” He just asked, sitting up and gesturing Ryou to come and sit next to him.

Ryou sat down. “Soon... I just didn't know how to. I'm sorry you had to find out like that...”

His father nodded. “I shouldn't have ran off like that but I was just so... surprised that... you are, you know, together like...that...” He trailed off a bit and couched.

“Yeah... I'm kind of surprised myself.” Ryou smiled a bit. “If someone would have told me some time back about... all this, I wouldn't have believed it.” There was a short pause. “So what do you... I mean are you ok with it?”

His father sighed and rubbed the back of his head. “Well... I think I'll have to digest this a while.”

“Ok... Maybe if you got to know him-”

“Not right now, I'm very tired from the trip so...”

“Oh alright, you can use my bed if you want, I usually sleep in Mariku's room.” Ryou told and his father, who had gotten up and was heading to his room, stopped and looked at him.

“What?”

Mr. Bakura shook his head. “Nothing, it's none of my busyness anyway...” With that he continued his way to Ryou's room. Ryou stared at his back for a second, wondering what had that been about.


Apparently Ryou had fallen asleep on the couch when he had started to watch TV after his father had gone to rest in his room. Now he was awaken by said father's loud voice and barging through the door.

“I can't understand what on earth you see in him!”

Ryou blinked his tired eyes. “Wha?” He asked stupidly, not quite understanding his dad.

“I went to talk to him, to get to know him like you said I should do. Now no one can say I didn't try to get along with your... boyfriend...” He seemed to struggle with the word a bit. “He has some serious anger issues, I tell you! I can accept if you rather be with a man but why, oh why does it have to be him?” He almost spat out the last word. “I think he's dangerous too.”

“Dad, please calm down.” Ryou seemed to be saying that a lot... “He's a bit... different, but he's much better than he was when I met him! And I know he would never hurt me on purpose.”
He stopped to think through his father's choice of words. “Dad, I wouldn't just want to be with any male... I don't think I'm gay, I'm just in love with Mariku...” Strangely enough, the subject of the other's gender had never really crossed his mind, not in a sense that he would have considered it a good thing or a bad thing. The fact that Mariku happened to be a male didn't bother him, it would be all the same if he was a female. He was Mariku the person he loved, not Mariku the guy he was being with.

“You love him?” His father asked.

“Yes.” Ryou nodded and the man rubbed the back of his neck.

“Well that's... good for you... I need some tea...” He left to the kitchen, staring in front of him in some sort of mixture of disbelieve and shock.

Ryou looked after him but then decided to let him be and recover, he needed to speak with Mariku.


“What happened with you and father?” Ryou asked once he had stepped in Mariku's room. The other turned to look at him, face expressionless.

“What do you mean?” He asked.

“I mean, why was my dad so upset when he came back from here?”

“Oh that...” Mariku said dully. “He just came in here and started to 'chat', more like interrogate. Asked all kinds of questions, I sort of blew up on him...”

Ryou let out a frustrated sigh. “Wonderful... You are aware that this didn't make things any better? I think he doesn't like you all that much.” That was an understatement.

“Yes.” Mariku spat. “Your dear daddy hates me now, I get it. I couldn't help it, he has no right to question me about anything.”

“What did he ask you then?” Ryou sat on the floor, opposite to the other who was leaning on the bed.

“All kinds of things about you and how long have we been together, what do I feel for you and since when, that kind of stuff, but then he went and asked how far have we gone, being really awkward about it too.”

“You mean..?”

“Exactly. I just told that it was none of his busyness, apparently he took it the wrong way and went all 'the talk' on me so I just snapped and told him to shut the fuck up. He didn't take it too well...”

Ryou stared at him for a while, having trouble believing that his father had actually asked something like that. “Oh that's... I got to admit that was a bit personal...”

“More than a bit.”


After a while Ryou decided to head back to his place, to see if his father had calmed down already. They really needed to work this out, he couldn't have the two most important people in his life hating each other.

“Dad?” He called when he stepped in, closing the door behind him. His dad was nowhere to be seen but as he stepped in his room to search there, he found his father sitting on his bed, looking at an old family photo. He looked up from the photo when Ryou carefully came into the room.

“Oh, Ryou, I thought you were with Mariku...”

“I was but I wanted to talk to you...” Ryou sat next to the man, also looking at the photo of all four of them when he had been younger. “I heard what happened with Mariku.” Both had their eyes fixed on the photo, not looking at each other.

“Oh... From him?”

“Yeah... He didn't really like that you asked so... personal questions.”

“I figured. He didn't have to react so strongly though.”

Ryou sighed silently. “That sounds just like him to me... Maybe if you tried a different approach.”

“Do you always have to be so careful around him? What if he blows up on you?”

Ryou smiled a bit. “He won't, I mean that nowadays he always seems to regret it if he does.”

“Nowadays? What happened before now?” His father sounded worried now.

“Well... I can remember only one time when he completely lost it... But he did apologize later!” Ryou hurried to add when his father looked rather horrified.

“So, what.. What did he do?”

“Um well... He sort of bit me...” Ryou admitted quietly.

“Oh my god... Where? Did you get badly hurt?”

“No noo! I mean, I ended up in the hospital but it wasn't too bad, honestly! Here.” He moved the collar of his shirt a bit so that the man could see the small scar. “It's healed pretty well. He took me to the hospital when I passed out.”

“You passed out?! Wha- Ryou!” His father seemed to be freaked out. “Why didn't you-?! What-Why did you even stay with him?! You could have just... He need some serious help a-and-”

“Dad, please!” Ryou interrupted his father. “He is getting help right here and he really is much better now. I know him, he wouldn't intentionally hurt me.”

“Intentionally?!”

“Don't you ever lose your temper? He's honestly not a bad person, you're just making a hasty judgment because of... well, his mental state.” Ryou placed his hand on his father's shoulder.
“He can be caring in his own way and he really does love me. Can't you just give him another chance?”

His father sighed heavily, looking down and rubbing the back of his neck. “I doubt that you're the best one to judge his character but if you really love him, I can't tell you to not be with him. Maybe I could go see him again...”

Ryou hugged his father tightly. “Thank you.”

“But I'm not promising to like him.” The man added, smiling a bit.

Ryou too smiled brightly. “You could try.”

They agreed to go see Mariku tomorrow and spend the rest of the day together, catching up and taking back at least some of the lost time. Ryou made them both tea and they chatted the day away, having a lot of catching up to do after being separated for so long.

The night was starting to fall and they had settled in the living room comfortably. Ryou felt happy to be once again reunited with his father and that things had the potential to change for the better. He had also told about his educational plans, how he was trying to get into a music school. His father approved of his choice, starting to get fond memories of his wife. They took a trip down the memory lane before Ryou's father began to yawn so much that it disturbed their conversation.

“You should go to bed, you had a ruff day.” Ryou said, smiling a bit. His father nodded in agreement.

“I guess...” Yawn. “Good night then.”

Ryou got up to go to Mariku's room. “Good night.”

“Sleep well.” The man called after him and Ryou shook his head a bit, smiling. His father's mind was dirtier than he had thought.

Mariku was waiting for him, sitting on the bed. “How did it go?” He asked as Ryou crawled next to him.

“Good, he's coming here tomorrow, to see you.” Ryou planted a small kiss on his lips. “Please try to behave.”

“Hmm... Are you going to be there?”

“I guess I'll have to, just to watch over you so that you don't bite each other's heads off.”

“Tch, I would beat him at that.” Mariku nibbled at Ryou's bottom lip, making him smile and lean in further.

“We should try to sleep some...”

“Only some?” The other looked at Ryou with a suggestive eyebrow.

“You know what I meant. I'm tired, come on.” Ryou pulled Mariku down next to him. The other let out almost an inaudible sigh, wrapping his arms around Ryou who pulled the covers over them.

After a moment of silence Ryou realized something. “You know, you didn't promise to behave yourself tomorrow...”

“Well, after my last meeting with your old man, I don't think I can make any promises about that.”

“Can you at least try? Please, for me?” Ryou turned so that he could see the other from the corner of his eye.

Mariku smirked a bit. “You know I never 'behave' around you anyway.” Ryou turned pretty shade of pink. “Fine, but only for you.”

Ryou smiled and readjusted himself so that he could bury his face in the other's neck. “Thank you...” He whispered and kissed the skin there.

“Sweets, don't do that if you want to sleep.” Mariku murmured in his hair.

“Um, ok...” He would have to remember that.


They were woken up by a knock on the door.

“Wha?” Ryou raised his head from the pillow, squinting his tired eyes. Mariku muttered something that sounded rather rude before sitting up, also forcing Ryou to get as he had been partly lying on top of the tanned male. “Who is it?” Ryou called.

“It's me.” It was the sound of his father so he got out of the bed and went to open the door. He let the man in, rubbing his eyes and yawning.

“Did I wake you up? Sorry, but it is ten already and I thought you would be awake.” The man said.

“That's ok.”

“No it's not...” Mumbled the more pissed off of the two, earning a quick glare from Ryou.

“Did you sleep well?” He asked from his dad, flopping to sit on the bed but then realizing that his father had nothing to sit on. “Um...”

“That's ok, I can sit on the floor. I slept well, you?”

“Good.”

Mariku suddenly threw a pillow at the man, it hit him in the face but was probably meant to be a nice gesture; now he had something to sit on. Mr. Bakura looked confused but Ryou smiled at Mariku and touched his arm gently, the other just 'hmph'ed but his face softened a bit.

“So...” The man sat on the pillow and seemed to realize that he had nothing to say so he looked a bit awkward, even more so when Mariku apparently decided that it was a good time to be affectionate and pulled Ryou against his chest. The other smiled a little and leaned against him.

Ryou's father's eyes bounced between the two a while before he shook his head a bit, smiling to himself. The two glanced at each other, confused about the man's actions.

“Dad?” Ryou asked carefully.

“I just realized how good you look together.” The man said with a small smile. Then he got up from his spot, dusting himself off and turning to look at Mariku sternly, if not a bit sorrowfully. “You take good care of my son.” He got a nod from the teen and satisfied with that he turned around to leave but was stopped by Ryou.

“Wait, where are you going?”

“I thought I should leave now.” He said without turning around.

“You don't have to go, and I thought you were going to get to know Mariku better.”

The man turned his head around, smiling a bit before sitting back down. “So, Mariku, what were you planning to do with your future?” He asked.

“What future? I'm going to stay here for a looong time.”

“A burden to the society then... How does my son fit into your unplanned future? Are you going to... like register your relationship or something like that?”

“Dad...” Ryou looked a bit embarrassed.

Mariku frowned. “I really haven't thought about that... but I... would like to have sweets here as a part of my future as a burden of society.” He nuzzled the other's cheek a bit. Ryou just looked happy that he had said that, even though it had caused some difficulty.

“Sweets?” The older man asked, confused, and his son blushed a bit.

“It's a nickname...” He mumbled.

“Ok... I don't even want to know where that comes from...” The man muttered. “I think I like you just a bit less now...” He told to Mariku who just smirked back, holding Ryou to him possessively. Ryou smiled happily, knowing that his dad didn't really mean it like that and that things were finally starting to look up for them.


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A/N: Hmm... I don't know if I liked the ending but if you count the ending in the epilogue to come, then that's like the real one, so I'm going to try to make that better. I'm not sure if the couples where both are the same gender can get married in Japan so I just went with the relationship registration thing we have in Finland. I personally believe that gender doesn't matter in love, maybe some of you caught that. Enough about my personal believes, it would be nice to hear what you think as always. Oh yeah, the epilogue should be up sooner than this chapter was, takes less time to write maybe.

Please review!!