Yu-Gi-Oh! Fan Fiction ❯ Desu Ryodan ❯ Gone ( Chapter 2 )
[ P - Pre-Teen ]
By: Onyx the Blind 
Yami is very sick, but what is happening to him?
Anime/Manga: Yu-Gi-Oh! Fan Fiction | Genre(s): Adventure | Type: Alternate Universe | Uploaded On: 11.25.2002 | Pages: 3 | Words: 1.7K | Visits: 213 | Status: Completed
Yami is very sick, but what is happening to him?
Anime/Manga: Yu-Gi-Oh! Fan Fiction | Genre(s): Adventure | Type: Alternate Universe | Uploaded On: 11.25.2002 | Pages: 3 | Words: 1.7K | Visits: 213 | Status: Completed
GO, Charmander!
Alrighty, I only got two reviews, but it was only in twenty minutes, so that satisfies me. Thank you Beholder of the Shadows and Shadowwolf. And, when does it say Ryou lives with his dad and his mom is dead? And lotsa people make the Yamis real people. But I guess that is kinda an AU, huh? So abawahaha!
Erm, Onto chapter two. Oh, I and some kid at school told me that Egypt is in Africa. Is that true?
For the sake of my sanity, I will be referring to Yami Bakura and Bakura, and Yami Marik as Ishtar. If we call YB by his hikari's last name, why not YM too? Makes sense to me...
Disclaimer: Don't own Yu-Gi-Oh. Probably never will.
One last thing, then I'll let you read. When you see the ## turn on the song 'Blue' from the Cowboy Bebop soundtrack, Blue. If you have it. It fits it so incredibly well! Maybe 'cause I was listening to it as I wrote it... but anyway, to the story now!
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Desu Ryodan
Ryou jumped slightly as the door slammed for the second time that night. Who was that? He wasn't expecting anyone. It wouldn't be his Yami, he never came back until at least 12:00. It could be his mother, come home to yell at him.
He decided that it was his mom and didn't bother go downstairs to see her. If she wanted him she would yell loud enough to be sure he got the message, then stomp to her room and lock herself inside for the evening.
He waited a few seconds for the wave of verbal abuse he was sure would fly upstairs. It didn't come. He frowned and opened his bedroom door slightly to look down the stairwell into the living room. She wasn't there. His frowned deepened. So who was it?
It occurred to him that it might be a burglar, and if so he would have to act with extreme caution.
He opened his door wider and slipped into the hallway. Now he could hear footsteps coming from downstairs. Heavy, uncertain sounding footsteps. Had a drunkard broken into his home? In that case it could be even more dangerous.
He moved slowly to the stairs and begun to descend them, making sure to avoid the steps he knew creaked. About halfway down he stopped. One more step and he would be able to see into the entryway.
Before he could move, a low moan ripped into the tense silence. It was... his Yami?? He rushed the rest of the way down, afraid of what he would find.
He reached the bottom and froze. His white-haired Yami stood near the door, clutching his head in shaking hands. Another terrible cry escaped the clenched jaws as he sank lower to the ground.
For an instant his eyes opened, and Ryou saw a great pain shining in their tortured depths, and something even darker behind that.
What was it?
Fear?
Who could have done this to Bakura?
Ryou ran to his Yami's side and crouched next to him. "Yami! Yami, what happened? What's wrong?"
The dark brown eyes cracked open again, but this time they were covered with their usual mask of scorn, even if it looked somewhat pained.
"Go away."
His low growl still carried the familiar tones of contempt for all weaker things, including Ryou, but it was tinged with something else.
"But Yami, you need help!"
"Fuck off," the curse was weak, but it still made Ryou pause, "I need nothing, especially not your help!"
Ryou stepped back and regarded his Yami sadly. If only he weren't so stubborn. Anyone could see he needed help! So why did he have to be like this?
Bakura shuddered slightly, and Ryou knew he was in agony. Suddenly he could stand it no more. He stepped forward again and held his Yami's arm firmly.
"Yami, you *do* need help, and I won't let you shrug it off. You're going to lay down and I'm going to make some food for you," Bakura did not seem to fight him, and he added in a softer tone, "Now stand up so I can help you."
With some difficulty the tall boy stood and it was only then that Ryou noticed the Sennen Ring. It lay on top of his black shirt, but it seemed different. Suddenly it shimmered, seemed to vanish for an instant, then it was back like the flickering glow of a dying street lamp.
Ryou glanced down at his own Ring, and noticed it doing the same thing. Could they be connected to Bakura's pain? Both he and his Yami were linked to each other through these Rings, but then, why didn't he feel anything? Could it be somehow *his* fault?
Helping Bakura to the couch, he sat down near the other's feet and held his own head in his hands. He had to talk to someone. He didn't know how to deal with this.
He looked up and, if possible, his brown eyes reflected even more sorrow. Like the lamenting eyes of a beaten dog, they seemed to shed their own sad light onto the world.
An unnoticed tear coursed slowly down his cheek and he stood with a firm resolution. He would call Yugi. His friend would know what to do. His friend always knew what to do.
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Yugi sat on a chair near his Yami's bed, his face ashen. His anguished crimson eyes watched as his counterpart groaned and shuddered in the twisted bed sheets. What was happening to Yami? And why was the Puzzle fading? Soon after they had arrived home the had discovered that both Puzzles seemed to be flickering in that odd way. So what was going on?
Anzu knocked on the door and looked into the room hesitantly, and with a weak smile from Yugi, she made her way over to him.
"How is he?" she whispered softly.
Yugi's gaze alternated between her and his Yami. "I don't know. But I'm really worried. What's going to happen to him?"
"No one can tell right now, Yugi. All we can do is hope." Her soft blue reassuring eyes looked into his and she smiled. He smiled back through his tears despite himself. "We'll always be here Yugi, no matter what happens, you'll always have us."
He looked down at the ground, then back at her, and finally at his Yami. "Thanks Anzu."
She smiled again and quickly brushed away her tears while he looked at Yami. "No problem Yugi, what are friends for? And, I came in here to tell you that Ryou called. Bakura has the same symptoms as Yami, and the Sennen Ring is fading too, just like the Puzzle."
He looked up at her, eyes once again awash in concern. "Really? Both Yamis *and* both Items. That can't be a coincidence! Do you think Marik and Ishtar are having the same problem?"
"Maybe. Or maybe they are sick *because* of Marik and Ishtar. I still don't trust them."
"Anzu, you should..."
Yugi stopped and stared at his Yami.
"Anzu, look!"
Yami's skin was pale, almost translucent, and he no longer thrashed about as if he had a fever. Now he was deathly still.
Yugi blinked, and Yami seemed to get even paler, until Yugi noticed the folds in the fabric of the bed sheet below him. <I> He could see the sheets below him! <i/> His Yami was fading, just like the Puzzle!
Yugi gasped in horror and stood up, "Yami!" he cried, "Yami! Wake up, please!"
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Slowly Yami's eyes opened. The proud, fierce look was gone from them, replaced with a desolate sorrow. He smiled weakly.
"It's ok, Aibou. Don't worry. I am... being called back to Amon-Ra. I expect I will see you again someday, maybe in the next life, but please, don't worry..."
"NO! Yami! We're are you going? What's happening? Please!" Yugi desperately tried to seize his Yami, keep him from leaving, but his hands passed through his body. He gasped, and tears flowed freely down his cheeks. "Yami..."
By now Yami was almost entirely gone, only a faint hint of his body remained, but as if he had heard Yugi's last cry, his eyes opened.
"The Papyrus of Anubis...!" he hissed, and he was gone, faded entirely from this plane of existence. The sheets his body had held up crumpled back to the bed with nothing to support them, like the shed skin of a snake.
The golden Puzzle fell to the bed with no body to rest on, glinted one last time, then winked away.
Anzu stared wide-eyed at the bed. Yami was gone. How was that possible? And what had be meant, by 'the Papyrus of Anubis'? She blinked and looked at Yugi.
He stood where he had been when his Yami disappeared, tears falling unchecked down his pale cheeks. His wide eyes stared unblinkingly at the last spot Yami had been as if he could bring him back with willpower alone. "Yami..."
A heavy sorrow descended onto his heart then. It was if a half of him had been ripped away, and in a sense, it had. His Yami was gone. Yami, who had been a father, a brother, and a friend to him, was gone. But how? Surely it was a dream. Yes, only a dream that he would wake up from, then Yami would be there to comfort him.
He reached down to feel the familiar weight of the Sennen Puzzle, to know that all would be well, but it was gone. It, being part of the same that Yami had worn, had faded with the other piece.
And then he knew, this was real.
His Yami was truly gone.
What was he going to do?
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Alrighty then! I finished the next chapter because... well because you told me to. And my muse wants me to write about Egypt now, so to do that, they have to GET to Egypt.
Anywho, drop me a review and I might be convinced to write the next chapter too!
By the way, thanks for all the reviews! They truly are an author's fuel. I got this chapter done in one day. Usually it takes me a week. Sad, ne?
Alrighty, I only got two reviews, but it was only in twenty minutes, so that satisfies me. Thank you Beholder of the Shadows and Shadowwolf. And, when does it say Ryou lives with his dad and his mom is dead? And lotsa people make the Yamis real people. But I guess that is kinda an AU, huh? So abawahaha!
Erm, Onto chapter two. Oh, I and some kid at school told me that Egypt is in Africa. Is that true?
For the sake of my sanity, I will be referring to Yami Bakura and Bakura, and Yami Marik as Ishtar. If we call YB by his hikari's last name, why not YM too? Makes sense to me...
Disclaimer: Don't own Yu-Gi-Oh. Probably never will.
One last thing, then I'll let you read. When you see the ## turn on the song 'Blue' from the Cowboy Bebop soundtrack, Blue. If you have it. It fits it so incredibly well! Maybe 'cause I was listening to it as I wrote it... but anyway, to the story now!
~~~~~//.\\//.\\//.\\//.\\//.\\~~~~~
Desu Ryodan
Ryou jumped slightly as the door slammed for the second time that night. Who was that? He wasn't expecting anyone. It wouldn't be his Yami, he never came back until at least 12:00. It could be his mother, come home to yell at him.
He decided that it was his mom and didn't bother go downstairs to see her. If she wanted him she would yell loud enough to be sure he got the message, then stomp to her room and lock herself inside for the evening.
He waited a few seconds for the wave of verbal abuse he was sure would fly upstairs. It didn't come. He frowned and opened his bedroom door slightly to look down the stairwell into the living room. She wasn't there. His frowned deepened. So who was it?
It occurred to him that it might be a burglar, and if so he would have to act with extreme caution.
He opened his door wider and slipped into the hallway. Now he could hear footsteps coming from downstairs. Heavy, uncertain sounding footsteps. Had a drunkard broken into his home? In that case it could be even more dangerous.
He moved slowly to the stairs and begun to descend them, making sure to avoid the steps he knew creaked. About halfway down he stopped. One more step and he would be able to see into the entryway.
Before he could move, a low moan ripped into the tense silence. It was... his Yami?? He rushed the rest of the way down, afraid of what he would find.
He reached the bottom and froze. His white-haired Yami stood near the door, clutching his head in shaking hands. Another terrible cry escaped the clenched jaws as he sank lower to the ground.
For an instant his eyes opened, and Ryou saw a great pain shining in their tortured depths, and something even darker behind that.
What was it?
Fear?
Who could have done this to Bakura?
Ryou ran to his Yami's side and crouched next to him. "Yami! Yami, what happened? What's wrong?"
The dark brown eyes cracked open again, but this time they were covered with their usual mask of scorn, even if it looked somewhat pained.
"Go away."
His low growl still carried the familiar tones of contempt for all weaker things, including Ryou, but it was tinged with something else.
"But Yami, you need help!"
"Fuck off," the curse was weak, but it still made Ryou pause, "I need nothing, especially not your help!"
Ryou stepped back and regarded his Yami sadly. If only he weren't so stubborn. Anyone could see he needed help! So why did he have to be like this?
Bakura shuddered slightly, and Ryou knew he was in agony. Suddenly he could stand it no more. He stepped forward again and held his Yami's arm firmly.
"Yami, you *do* need help, and I won't let you shrug it off. You're going to lay down and I'm going to make some food for you," Bakura did not seem to fight him, and he added in a softer tone, "Now stand up so I can help you."
With some difficulty the tall boy stood and it was only then that Ryou noticed the Sennen Ring. It lay on top of his black shirt, but it seemed different. Suddenly it shimmered, seemed to vanish for an instant, then it was back like the flickering glow of a dying street lamp.
Ryou glanced down at his own Ring, and noticed it doing the same thing. Could they be connected to Bakura's pain? Both he and his Yami were linked to each other through these Rings, but then, why didn't he feel anything? Could it be somehow *his* fault?
Helping Bakura to the couch, he sat down near the other's feet and held his own head in his hands. He had to talk to someone. He didn't know how to deal with this.
He looked up and, if possible, his brown eyes reflected even more sorrow. Like the lamenting eyes of a beaten dog, they seemed to shed their own sad light onto the world.
An unnoticed tear coursed slowly down his cheek and he stood with a firm resolution. He would call Yugi. His friend would know what to do. His friend always knew what to do.
~~~~~//.\\//.\\//.\\//.\\//.\\~~~~~
Yugi sat on a chair near his Yami's bed, his face ashen. His anguished crimson eyes watched as his counterpart groaned and shuddered in the twisted bed sheets. What was happening to Yami? And why was the Puzzle fading? Soon after they had arrived home the had discovered that both Puzzles seemed to be flickering in that odd way. So what was going on?
Anzu knocked on the door and looked into the room hesitantly, and with a weak smile from Yugi, she made her way over to him.
"How is he?" she whispered softly.
Yugi's gaze alternated between her and his Yami. "I don't know. But I'm really worried. What's going to happen to him?"
"No one can tell right now, Yugi. All we can do is hope." Her soft blue reassuring eyes looked into his and she smiled. He smiled back through his tears despite himself. "We'll always be here Yugi, no matter what happens, you'll always have us."
He looked down at the ground, then back at her, and finally at his Yami. "Thanks Anzu."
She smiled again and quickly brushed away her tears while he looked at Yami. "No problem Yugi, what are friends for? And, I came in here to tell you that Ryou called. Bakura has the same symptoms as Yami, and the Sennen Ring is fading too, just like the Puzzle."
He looked up at her, eyes once again awash in concern. "Really? Both Yamis *and* both Items. That can't be a coincidence! Do you think Marik and Ishtar are having the same problem?"
"Maybe. Or maybe they are sick *because* of Marik and Ishtar. I still don't trust them."
"Anzu, you should..."
Yugi stopped and stared at his Yami.
"Anzu, look!"
Yami's skin was pale, almost translucent, and he no longer thrashed about as if he had a fever. Now he was deathly still.
Yugi blinked, and Yami seemed to get even paler, until Yugi noticed the folds in the fabric of the bed sheet below him. <I> He could see the sheets below him! <i/> His Yami was fading, just like the Puzzle!
Yugi gasped in horror and stood up, "Yami!" he cried, "Yami! Wake up, please!"
##
Slowly Yami's eyes opened. The proud, fierce look was gone from them, replaced with a desolate sorrow. He smiled weakly.
"It's ok, Aibou. Don't worry. I am... being called back to Amon-Ra. I expect I will see you again someday, maybe in the next life, but please, don't worry..."
"NO! Yami! We're are you going? What's happening? Please!" Yugi desperately tried to seize his Yami, keep him from leaving, but his hands passed through his body. He gasped, and tears flowed freely down his cheeks. "Yami..."
By now Yami was almost entirely gone, only a faint hint of his body remained, but as if he had heard Yugi's last cry, his eyes opened.
"The Papyrus of Anubis...!" he hissed, and he was gone, faded entirely from this plane of existence. The sheets his body had held up crumpled back to the bed with nothing to support them, like the shed skin of a snake.
The golden Puzzle fell to the bed with no body to rest on, glinted one last time, then winked away.
Anzu stared wide-eyed at the bed. Yami was gone. How was that possible? And what had be meant, by 'the Papyrus of Anubis'? She blinked and looked at Yugi.
He stood where he had been when his Yami disappeared, tears falling unchecked down his pale cheeks. His wide eyes stared unblinkingly at the last spot Yami had been as if he could bring him back with willpower alone. "Yami..."
A heavy sorrow descended onto his heart then. It was if a half of him had been ripped away, and in a sense, it had. His Yami was gone. Yami, who had been a father, a brother, and a friend to him, was gone. But how? Surely it was a dream. Yes, only a dream that he would wake up from, then Yami would be there to comfort him.
He reached down to feel the familiar weight of the Sennen Puzzle, to know that all would be well, but it was gone. It, being part of the same that Yami had worn, had faded with the other piece.
And then he knew, this was real.
His Yami was truly gone.
What was he going to do?
~~~~~//.\\//.\\//.\\//.\\//.\\~~~~~
Alrighty then! I finished the next chapter because... well because you told me to. And my muse wants me to write about Egypt now, so to do that, they have to GET to Egypt.
Anywho, drop me a review and I might be convinced to write the next chapter too!
By the way, thanks for all the reviews! They truly are an author's fuel. I got this chapter done in one day. Usually it takes me a week. Sad, ne?