Yu-Gi-Oh! Fan Fiction ❯ If only for one moment, I could be like you... ❯ An encounter with the 'nothing' ( Chapter 7 )

Ryou giggled at the incredibly loose garment the police had given him, it was a HUGE shirt that went all the way down to the mid calves. "Is this a `clothes'?" He asked while sitting in the chair across from an older officer and pulling at the shirt. "Yes that's a shirt. What's your name?" The officer asked kindly, not wanting to scare the obviously abnormal teen. Ryou grinned brightly. "Oh, I'm Ryou nice to meet you! What's your name?" He said, discovering that the chair he was sitting in could spin.

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Jono sighed as he entered the nearest police station. "I don't even know why I'm doing this...this is just some psychotic druggie or retarded brat..." he grumbled to himself as he approached the counter. "Excuse me; have you seen a white haired boy? Real pale-like and confused." The secretary nodded after a moment. "Yes, are you Ryou's guardian?" Jono nodded after a moment. "Yeah, he's a cousin of mine, who came to visit me...he's kinda mental and a few kids on our block tricked him into running around the beach naked." Jono said hoping the secretary would just release the boy to him.

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Ryou looked around in awe at the small holding cell he was in. "Wow...this is so neat! What is this called?" He asked a particularly mean looking cell-mate. He had long dark hair with purple bangs, and he had a tattoo on his right arm that said `Ryuzaki'. Just looking at the bigger much meaner looking human, Ryou clamed down from his eagerness to learn about them for the moment. "How come you seem so angry?" He asked softly. "Are you angry with me?" Ryou added, tilting his head to the side and wondering what he could have possibly done to make the other angry. Ryuzaki lifted his gaze to Ryou, a hunger apparent in his eyes. "Shut up." He said running his eyes over Ryou's small and delicate appearing form. Ryou blinked, but sat down on the nearby sell bed and nodded.

It wasn't long, before Ryuzaki rose from his seat and approached Ryou. He smirked coldly and cracked his knuckles. "You know why I'm here? Let me tell you..." He whispered venomously. Ryou blinked, this situation had switched from happy to frightening. "I...I don't understand..." Ryou said, inching back further. Ryuzaki smirked snatching Ryou up by his wrists and pressing him against the wall. "I'm here...because I raped someone." Ryou swallowed hard, knowing he was in danger. "R-raped...?" Ryuzaki nodded. "Before you ask, if you need to, I'll just show you. You can be my little bitch." Ryou shook his head. "N-no thank you...I don't think I n-need to know about that..." Ryou said struggling to get away. "B-besides...I...I think I'd p-prefer sitting quietly..."

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Jono sighed. "Are you going to give Ryou back to me or what?" He asked annoyed. The officer nodded after a moment. So far, Jono had gone through the secretary and two other officers. "I'll go get the boy, take him home and get him dressed and back on his medication. It's shameful that you let him out of your sight if he's so mentally unstable." Jono sighed and nodded, still wondering why he had even CARED about the little nudist. `You care, because you like him...' his mind said smirking at him. "Shut up..." he grumbled. He couldn't argue though...it's not often that a beautiful person walks up to you, in the nude, and gazes at you with such love of everything in their eyes. Ryou seemed so new...so innocent to the world. Jono sighed running a hand through his hair as the officer left. `He's so innocent...I can't just leave him alone, he obviously doesn't know anything about anything. Stupid brat.'

The officer gasped when he caught sight of Ryou and Ryuzaki. "Ryuzaki! You stop that this instant or so help me..." he growled, throwing the cell door open and shoving him off of Ryou. Ryou whimpered and covered his eyes. He had almost been raped! He sniffled shaking slightly from fear. That Ryuzaki had been fondling him like he was some sort of sexual exhibitionist! Other officers immediately flooded into the cell, hearing the first's shouts. "Are you ok little guy?" The eldest said, pulling Ryou up slowly. "Y-yes...I...I think I want to go home now." Ryou sniffled slightly, wiping at his eyes and whimpering at the hate-filled glare Ryuzaki was giving him. "Well that's good, your cousin is here to take you home...ok?" Ryou blinked but nodded, quickly following the nice officer away from the cell, not looking back. Ryou grinned brightly when he saw his friend from the beach. "Hi!" he chirped, though still shaking slightly. Jono frowned. "What the hell did you do to him?! He's shaking!" The officer frowned and shoved Ryou to Jono softly. "It's ok, nothing happened, his cellmate just gave him a scare."

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Ryou shrieked in terror as the Jono drove his car from the police station. "Oh just calm down, it's a car you dope!" Ryou was back to shaking like a fallen maple leaf in the wind. "IT'S MOVING!! MONSTER!" Ryou shouted hitting the nearest thing, which happened to be the gearshift, shifting the gear and causing Jono to yelp and grab it switching it back and looking a bit unsteady. "CALM DOWN! Look...Ryou, see?" Jono said, slowing the car to a stop as they reached turn in the road. "It's made to go and stop when I tell it to. You're ok." Ryou nodded after a moment, breathing hard and gripping the edges of his seat. "Y-you are sure...?"

Jono smiled softly; still unsure as to why he was STILL helping Ryou. Something was about Ryou was...charming. The smaller teen was cute, in his own fidgety way. The longer he stayed near Ryou, the more he felt that deep down he knew Ryou really WAS a merman. Something about the wonder in his eyes, and the fact that he was now currently plastered to the window, taking in all the sights that any other human couldn't have cared less about. Yes, Ryou really WAS something special...maybe just maybe; he wasn't just making things up. Pulling into the parking lot of the apartment complex where he lived, Jono finally removed his keys from the now parked car. Ryou was giddily playing in his seat, having discovered that it had a seatbelt.

"AHEM!" Jono grumbled, interrupting Ryou's innocent antics. "We're home. You're going to stay with me, until I figure you out...ok Ryou?" Ryou blinked but nodded quickly. "Oh thank you! You're so wonderful! For the first `human' I've met, I'm so glad it was you." Ryou said bowing his head in gratitude and getting out of the car. Jono sighed, smiling inwardly. "I've got a spare room; I'll set you up in there with the couch bed." Ryou nodded and followed Jono to the apartment. "Um...what's a `couch bed'?" Groaning Jono opened the door to the apartment. "You'll see...how about that?"

Ryou jumped up and down on the soft, downy, practically unused couch bed. "Boing! Boing! Boing! Boing!" Ryou mused, to the sound of springs as the bed's sheets and blanked became tousled and unmade. The apartment was actually pretty tidy, other than a few strewn movies, a little popcorn and other snack materials on the floor and of course the ever present in ANY man's home, when living alone...clothes. Clothes, which were strewn carelessly across the chairs and television. "I know it's a mess, but you're just gonna have to live with it until I can clean it." Ryou blinked, falling over on the couch's mattress. "Oh no I think it's beautiful! This place is so interesting. I've never seen so many human things before!" Ryou said excitedly. Silently Ryou berated himself for acting like Yugi was prone to when he got excited about something that seemed fun. But in the end, Ryou couldn't help it! He was finally exploring the world he dreamed about since he found out it existed.

"I have work tomorrow, so I'll just leave you here, don't go in the kitchen, I'll leave you some stuff to eat on the table, and when I get back, we'll go shopping for some clothes for you." Ryou blinked, not having the slightest clue what `table', or `shopping' were. At least he knew what clothes were. "Oh...ok!" He said yawning and looking outside at the now evening sky. Had it really been that long since he'd first set fin and foot on this new world?

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Jono sighed, when he caught sight of Ryou sleeping awkwardly without covers and shivering. "Poor little dork..." he said, gently picking Ryou up and laying him on the bed properly, before covering his small body with the blankets. "I don't know how you did it, but you've really won me over. S'not often that I go around making up lies to save a friend in police custody, you can ask Honda about that...but something about you..." Jono mumbled, hugging the small yet deep sleeping teen and inhaling the scent of the sea in his hair. "You really are something..." he said softly, before getting up to turn out the lights leaving the pale starry-eyed teen dream about all the things he'd seen, and delight in what was still to come.