Yu-Gi-Oh! Fan Fiction ❯ Kura is Who? ❯ Chapter 2

The next morning Ryou was walking to school early so that he didn't run into Yugi on the way. That school day Ryou was even quieter and more withdrawn than normal but nobody noticed or so he thought. Up in Reikia Koenma watched the `boy` wishing that Ryou was someone else or not in his situation. When Kurama finds out that Koenma knew all along who Ryou is, he will be very mad. Kurama might be mad enough to let out his Youko side, getting the demigod into trouble with his dad. Koenma sighed. He said "I hope this turns out okay." Meanwhile back on Nigenkia school was over and Yusuke was waiting for Ryou. Ryou exited the school looking around to find Kurama without drawing attention to himself. Just as he was walking back into the school he heard “Kid, where are you going we have some unfinished business to attend to?” said a harsh voice it, was Yusuke. Only he wasn't talking in the softer tone of voice he used yesterday. “Ryou don't even think of going back inside the school. You have to leave sometime. I can wait all night if need be” he said. Ryou sighed and walked to Yusuke who grabbed his arm and ran making Ryou either run to keep up or get dragged.

When Yusuke let go of Ryou's arm they were in a neighborhood with big houses and a private expensive school. (Kurama's step-dad is rich and his mom isn't poor either) “Come on Ryou, Kurama's school is this way and your dad contacted your school already” said Yusuke. They continued walking when Ryou said “Out of curiosity what would happen if I said that I didn't want to do this and that my Father is making me for a month?” “Then I'd say tough luck. Come on, your walking way too slow” replied Yusuke. They sped up and got into a neighborhood worse than Ryou's; it was a poor one. “This is mine and Kuwabara's neighborhood. NEVER come here alone. You would be beaten up or worse. On Kuwabara's turf you'd be okay because he doesn't beat up weaklings unless they mess with him or his gang first. On my turf don't challenge me and you'll be fine because I'm the only one to fight there. The rest of them will bother you so stick close.” Said Yusuke. A group of thugs walked up to them with Kuwabara at the front “Urimeshi, I challenge you to a fight and I will beat you this time” he said. “right I'd love to bash your head into the pavement again but it will have to wait, Kurama's waiting for me. You should stay here though, you haven't spent time with your gang in a while” said Yusuke. “Actually we were talking to Kuwabara about stepping down. It's obvious he isn't enjoying it that much anymore. We appreciate all that he did for us but he would rather spend more time with your elite fighting group. We've become too tame for him” said the short guy. “Don't worry Kuwabara we'll keep you morals and honor still, go have fun. You're not abandoning us” said the tall one. The last boy then spoke “We are still your friends and we understand. The group has decided that I will be the leader if you decide to go but I won't pressure you into it.” “Thanks, you guys are true friends, I accept and will see you in school, good luck” said Kuwabara. The new leader walked away with the other two behind and didn't turn back once. Yusuke said “Come on Kurama's waiting” so they ran off again. Ten minutes later they reached Meio High school. Standing on the steps was Kurama and Hiei was in the tree closest to the school. {remember K'rama don't do your job too well} *what do you mean Hiei* {we want him to get comfortable with us over time, tell the baka ningen and detective not to overplay their parts} *why don't you?* {fine} {Detective} he called to Yusuke `What the hell, Hiei agreed not to do that' thought Yusuke {Hn. Don't over play your part the kid has to trust us} `how am I supposed to reply when he doesn't talk out loud?' {think at me baka} `fine but why do you care about this human?' {I don't care for any ningen unless it's Kurama's mother. I just want to finish this as quickly as possible} `fine' thought Yusuke. Hiei then had the same conversation with Kuwabara. Kurama had taken Ryou inside and they were following Kurama to the guidance office. Ryou though only twelve was in eighth grade because he skipped one. Inside the guidance office they met up with Mrs. Hoehlert who was Kurama's guidance counselor. “Suichi” she said “this is the last project that you need to do. I need by Friday (that day was Wednesday) the name of the boy, his age, grade and seven other facts about him." Kurama nodded and they left the building. “Where do you guys want to go?” asked Kurama. “Your house” said Kuwabara. “Hn” said Hiei. “Yusuke said “Your house or we can visit Genkai” “What about you Ryou?” asked Kurama. “I don't care” replied Ryou. “Your house, Ryou can't meet Genkai now” said Hiei “guess we are going to go to my house than” said Kurama. { I want to meditate} “bye Hiei” said Kurama as Hiei left. “Where did the shrimp go?” asked Kuwabara. “He wants to meditate for a few hours." Ryou looked interested but said nothing. They reached Kurama's house that looked as big as a mini-mansion to Ryou. Yusuke and Kuwabara started to pick out a game and Kurama decided to get information out of Ryou. “Do you want to go into the kitchen it will be quieter?” asked Kurama. “Sure” said Ryou. They walked to the kitchen and sat down at the table. Kurama wrote down Ryou's name and then proceeded to ask questions. “How old are you?” “twelve” replied Ryou. “seventh grade?” asked Kurama. “eighth, I skipped one” replied Ryou “are you normally bullied?” continued Kurama “what do you think I have white hair, I'm weak and don't know how to fight” said Ryou. <<Bad light, they don't need to know that you know you're weak>> <well master, if I get bullied every day I'm not exactly strong therefore I must be weak.> “How many friends do you have?” “enough.” `none actually but that works fine with me' thought Ryou. “Favorite food?” asked Kurama. “None” answered Ryou. “How about sports” yelled Yusuke from the living room. “I'm not really into sports” said Ryou while thinking `I wish I could do sports but I can't trust Bakura----master to keep from hurting anybody.' Under Ryou's most powerful block (one that Bakura can't break in time to figure out what Ryou was thinking) he was thinking `I hate calling Bakura master. I wish I could be free of Him. Even the bullies and Father can't be worse than Him. Hell it was His fault that Father started to beat me in the first place.'

Hiei was listening to Ryou's thoughts this whole time while meditating. He thought that Ryou has it almost as bad as he did as a child. Hiei let that thought and the emotions drift from his head and started meditating in a tree at the park.

Back with the others Kurama was having trouble thinking of questions to ask when he caught sight of a book called Sabriel. He asked Ryou “what kind of books or movies do you like?”. Ryou answered “I like fantasy and books where either people suffer or the bad guys lose.” They finished the questions with stuff like favorite book, movie, author, actor. Yusuke stretched and said “four forty-five, how about we go drop him off at his home before we leave?” “works for me” said Kuwabara. Kurama nodded so they set off for Ryou's home. They got there at four fifty. “Bye, guess I'll see you tomorrow after school” said Ryou. “Yeah but meet us at Kurama's school- the long way so you don't have to cut through our neighborhood” said Yusuke. Ryou nodded and knocked at the door. When he noticed the others' confusion he said “we have only one key. Since Father gets home first and leaves after me he gets the key.” The older boys nodded but made no move to leave. The door opened and his father said “good your on time, come on in dinner will be ready soon. Bye boys” then he closed the door. “Make dinner now” he said. “What do you want Father?” asked Ryou. “There are chicken cutlets in the freezer make four of them” said P.B. “yes sir” said Ryou. He went into the kitchen and took out four of the ten cutlets. He then cooked it as bad as he could and still have his father satisfied enough not to beat him. He finished cooking and had already set a place when he realized that he didn't know how many people were eating “how many places Father?” he asked “two, Bakura and I are eating so after you finish go sit in a corner” said P.B. Ryou finished setting the table and put the food in the middle without taking any. “Dinner is ready” he called walking to the corner farthest from the table and his father and Bakura. The two walked into the kitchen and sat down to eat without so much as a simple 'thanks' Bakura decided that his slave was too comfortable “Hikari go out to the backyard and wait for us to allow you back in. Your presence in this kitchen isn't necessary.” P.B. added “once you come back do the dishes.” Ryou said “yes master, Father” as he headed out to the back yard. “Take off your shirt first” called Bakura to Ryou. Ryou nodded and took off his shirt and tossed it into Bakura's waiting arm. Ryou walked outside where after two minutes it started drizzling. That wouldn't have been so bad except it started to rain hard after ten minutes. There was a tree outside in the yard but he isn't allowed near it. A half an hour later it was pouring but he still heard Bakura's yell “get in here brat and do the dishes now.” Ryou walked in and did the dishes but when he finished Bakura was standing there. Ryou was careful not to look up from the floor. “Normally I would punish you the normal way for dripping inside but our predicament calls for a different approach.” Bakura started to kick and punch him. When he stopped Ryou was no worse off then if a bully had cornered him on his way to school. Bakura said “that wasn't all of your punishment, you're sleeping outside tonight without a shirt, coat, or jacket. Now go before I lose my good mood.” Ryou whispered “yes master” before fleeing. He went out to the backyard and tried to get comfortable for although it was spring the rain made it cold. Ryou was freezing and couldn't get comfortable enough to catch up on sleep lost because of his serving his father and Bakura. Around eleven o'clock Ryou finally fell asleep on the freezing cold sopping wet ground.

The next day at 4:30 am.

Ryou woke up because the sun was shining on him. He was instantly aware that he wasn't on his bed in his room but instead outside. “Get in here now” called Bakura from inside. Ryou ran to the doorway but stopped remembering that he got into trouble for dripping yesterday. “Master, may I take off my clothes first so that they don't drip?” called Ryou softly. “Yes but don't get dressed until after your shower. Start cleaning up the bloodstains from the day before yesterday before you shower” said Bakura. Ryou nodded and took off his clothes, grabbed the cleaning supplies, and went upstairs. It took him an hour to get rid of all the stains. Ryou grabbed his clothes and decided that it was still early enough to shower before breakfast. He got out of the shower at 6:00 so he dried his hair. At 6:30 he was ready for school even though it doesn't start for another 2 hours and 14 minutes. Ryou grabbed a book on Japanese mythology and left the house for school. He walked straight for school not wanting to be caught by any high school bullies. He heard the signs of a distant fight and walked faster to avoid the fighters. When he got to school it was only 7:20 and he took the long way to kill time. Ryou walked into his classroom and took out the book he had taken from home. Ten minutes later the teacher came in. “Hello Ryou your here early” said Ms. Byranz. “Yes Ms. Bryanz, I wanted to so I could read before the other students come” said Ryou. “Really this month we are going to be looking at myths and legends of different countries. Judging by that book your reading you like the subject huh?” said Ms. Byranz. Ryou nodded and went back to reading. <<Did I say you could leave boy>> <no master> <then why did you?>> <because you didn't say I couldn't sir> <<tell those mortals that you have to be home at 4:45 today. If you are late every second will be taken from your hide>> <yes master>. The other students have arrived by then and class was about to start. “Next week we start mythology. So you must have your poems in by the end of the period tomorrow. Those who are done may have a free period” said the teacher. There were a few grins and groans made by the students. Ryou had already finished his poem. Ryou handed the poem to the teacher and went back to his book. Ten minutes later Yugi finished his poem and handed it in. He approached Ryou “do you want to duel?” Ryou didn't answer because he was engrossed in his book. Yugi shrugged and walked back to his desk where Joey immediately challenged him to a duel. Since every one was busy with there work Yami went into spirit form after checking to make sure that Ryou really was into his reading. Yami went to the teacher's desk to see what Ryou wrote because he never let anyone read his work unless it was mandatory. He was surprised at what the boy had written. //aibo?// / yes Yami?/ //if you aren't to busy with your duel I want to discuss something// /sure just give me another move/ “sorry Joey but I'm going to end this so I can sleep” said Yugi. Joey said “feel free to, if you can”. Yugi put down a card that removes magic and trap cards, then since Joey had 100 hundred points and a 1600 point monster out Yugi played the dark magician ending the duel. “Night” he said putting is head down /what's up Yami?/ //I looked at Ryou's poem// /that's not nice he doesn't like others reading those/ //yeah and now I know why// /why Yami?/ // because from what he wrote Bakura is still bothering him// /does his poem admit that Ryou's getting beaten?/ //no but it talks about the darkness consuming him and that the world will rue it if the dark escapes.// /what can we do?/ //nothing except wait, he doesn't know that we know. We watch carefully and act if we see anything.//. The bell than rang.

After school

Ryou headed the long way to Kurama's school. Yusuke met him part-way and walked with him. “You seem distracted, what's up?” asked Yusuke. “Nothing I just was thinking of something we did in school today” Ryou sighed 'and how much trouble I'd be in if Bakura found out that I wrote poetry and He was in it' thought Ryou under his best shields. Hiei than joined them and if Ryou was looking up he would have saw that Hiei had jumped out of a tree. “Hey Hiei, you never showed yesterday” said Yusuke “Hn” “Hiei I need a real answer, are you coming tonight?” said Yusuke “fine but if that Baka is late I'm not repeating myself” said Hiei. “There now,was that so hard?” asked Yusuke “watch it” growled Hiei. “You need to be home at 5:00 right?” asked Yusuke. “No today I need to be home at 4:45” said Ryou. “Why” asked Hiei. “Father needs me home early today” lied Ryou. Ryou Hiei and Yusuke got to Kurama's house at 3:15. The door opened “hello. Do you guys want to go to the new ice-cream shop?” Kuwabara came running down the stairs then “please, please, please say yes.” “I'll pay for Hiei and Ryou as well as myself” said Kurama. “Awww come-on why won't you pay for me and Kuwabara too?” “because you eat too much” said Kurama. The five boys walked to the ice-cream shop. Once they got on the short line Kurama asked Ryou “what flavor do you want?” “mint chocolate chip please” said Ryou. The girl at the counter was someone who was Kurama's age and went to his school. “Hey Suichi what can I get you today?” asked the girl “one triple scoop of chocolate, a single scoop vanilla, and a single?, single scoop mint chocolate chip.” Ryou nodded when Kurama asked if he wanted a single or double scoop of ice-cream. Kurama paid the girl and walked outside handing Hiei the chocolate and Ryou his. “Thanks” said Ryou. Kurama nodded and started on his vanilla cone. Yusuke came out with a giant chocolate milk shake and Kuwabara got a five scoop bowl of strawberry. They walked around the park a block from Kurama's house for a half hour before going back to Kurama's house so that Yusuke and Kuwabara could play on his game system. Ryou was watching with Hiei and Kurama. Kuwabara went into the bathroom at 4:39. “We'll leave as soon as he gets out, it doesn't take more than five minutes to take you home” said Kurama. “Really, you don't have to I could go now” said Ryou. “No your not going through our neighborhood without us” said Yusuke. Ryou didn't have a watch so he didn't know that Kuwabara got out at 4:45. By the time Ryou got home it was 5:50. He nervously knocked on the door. His father answered the door “your late” “sorry father” said Ryou before entering the house after waving bye to the four outside. Bakura materialized in-front of Ryou “I told you that if you were so much as a second late it would come out of your hide. Luckily there is no school on Monday and today is only Thursday. Call the Pharaoh's light and tell him your sick, then go to your room” said Bakura. “Yes master” said Ryou before heading for the phone. “Hello kame` game shop” said Yugi “hi Yugi”. “Ryou what's up?” asked Yugi. “I'm not feeling too well I can't go to school tomorrow, can you get my work?” asked Ryou. “Sure feel better” “thanks” “welcome bye” Yugi hung up. Then Ryou did as well. At Yugi's house Yugi was worried about Ryou. /Yami do you think that Ryou was lying?/ //I believe he is. He never knows in advance if he's sick// /couldn't he have come home sick and then call us so we don't worry?/ //I highly doubt it but we are helpless `till Bakura makes his move// /I don't like it/ //you don't have to but it is our only possible course of action// /fine/

~~~~~BACK AT RYOU'S HOUSE~~~~~

Walking up to his room Ryou was terrified but thought ahead enough to put a book into his soulroom. As soon as Ryou closed the door to the bedroom he found himself in his soul room. “Let me know as soon as someone enters your soulroom and don't be rude” said Bakura. Ryou nodded and Bakura said “give me the book your reading”. “Yes master” Ryou handed Bakura the book. “ Magic's Pawn? What kind of book is that?” asked the Spirit. “It is a fantasy book” at Bakura's glare Ryou added “Master”. Bakura left Ryou to go get ready. Ryou was laying on his bed about 50 pages into his book when 2 beings entered the room. “Master, they're here” called Ryou with out looking up. When Bakura entered Ryou's soul room his bed disappeared making him fall. Taking the hint Ryou went into the corner that had a rug for this purpose. Ryou's soul room was very plain the floor was wood with a rug in one corner. The walls were dark blue and his bed was against the wall that had the door. The only time the room had anything else was when Bakura brought it or made it. Where Ryou's bed was a minute ago there were three comfortable chairs. Bakura said to Ryou “lower the screen boy” “yes master” Ryou lowered the screen used for viewing things such as movies and then curled up in his corner. The two intruders in Ryou's soul room were not human of that he was sure. The first one was very tall with long, straight, sleek, silver hair with a purple tint. Dark glittering silver eyes. He also had an arrogant demeanor.(Youko Kurama's normal form) The other was green with lots of eyes on his shoulders and arms. He had three eyes on his head, two red ones in the normal positions and one purple/blue eye in the middle of his head. His black and silver/white hair was upright with a indent in the middle. “First what are your names? Mine is Bakura” said Bakura. “I am mostly called Youko” said the first who is really Kurama in his demon form. “You should know better than to ask for names. You may call me Fo though” said the other who is Hiei. “Very well, I'm sure that you have questions. Ask them and I'll answer the ones I can” said Bakura. “Very well, how did you get the boy to be obedient?” asked Kurama. “I am strict and got to him when he was still young” replied Bakura. “What kind of work does he do?” asked Hiei. “Well Fo, he does cooking, cleaning, spying and what ever else I tell him to” said Bakura. “He never says no or refuses to do something?” asked Kurama. “He sometimes does though he later regrets it, speaking of which he disobeyed me earlier, so can we pick it up tomorrow if we need more time after 8?” said Bakura. The other two nodded. “I noticed your interest in how I wound up with a human slave, would you like to see how?” asked Bakura. Hiei and Kurama looked at each other {what do you think?} *I am interested in how young Ryou became a slave* {if you ask how first I'm okay with it} *fine* “how are you going to do that?” asked Kurama. “I'll simply take his memory of the event and show it to you on the screen” said Bakura {fine with me, you?} *okay* the two demons nodded. “Ryou I need your memory of our meeting” said Bakura. “Yes master” Ryou got up and walked to what looked like an empty wall. He than murmured to the wall “I need a memory, open up and let me through” the wall didn't visibly change but when Ryou walked into it he actually walked through it. Ryou came back holding a big book. “It's the first chapter Master.” Bakura asked “What does it go up to?” “It goes up to moving to Japan.” replied Ryou. Bakura grabbed the book and said “this is just our first meeting, I might show more at a future time.” Ryou sat down at Bakura's feet. Then Bakura threw the book at the screen and said “first memory” the screen went through a rainbow of colors before focusing in on a 6 year-old Ryou. His father came onto the screen and said “I'm sorry for missing your birthday Ryou” little Ryou said “it's okay daddy. I knew you were busy at work”. “That's right buddy and as an apology I got this for you” said P.B. holding up the millennium ring. “Thank you daddy” said little Ryou. “Your welcome now why don't you play in your room?” asked P.B. “okay” said little Ryou. He grabbed the ring and ran upstairs. Once he was up in his room little Ryou put on the ring. A blast of golden light blinded little Ryou. Once little Ryou could look up he did so and opened his mouth to scream. A hand went over little Ryou's mouth before he could scream. The hand over little Ryou's mouth belonged to a boy who looked like an 18 year old version of little Ryou. Little Ryou thought `who is he' and the elder boy said “I'm Bakura”. Little Ryou said “hi Bakura how did you get here?” Bakura said “I lived in the ring and I'm your darkness and master” “huh?” said little Ryou. “Shut up brat” said Bakura before punching little Ryou in the stomach. Little Ryou was very surprised so he started to cry. Bakura was about to kick little Ryou when P.B. started up the stairs. “I'll be back, weakling” said Bakura before disappearing into the ring. P.B. went to the crying little Ryou. He then told his father what had happened, P.B. didn't believe him and told little Ryou that it was just a dream. The screen then went back to being black. It was 7:00. “We have to go now” said Kurama. “Same time tomorrow” stated Hiei before the two disappeared. Ryou's soulroom changed yet again. The three chairs and screen were gone and a shelf of knives appeared with a lot of other weapons including staffs, wooden swords ,regular swords, and whips. In the center of the room a wood thing to hold the arms above the head and shackle the ankles resembling a stock called the TIOD (it is called TIOd because it's short for torture implement of doom) was suspended from the ceiling. Bakura smiled maliciously and kicked Ryou into the real world. `I am in so much trouble. Why did Kuwabara have to go to the bathroom? At a time when I would have been punished for being a second late I had to be five minutes late, great.' Thought Ryou under the shield. Bakura asked “Slave, what did you do wrong?”. “I was 300 seconds late master when you told me to be not even one second late” said Ryou. “That's right and I'm going to have to punish you 300 times worse than if you were only a second late and I'm going to do it Today, Tomorrow, Saturday, and Sunday, so I don't kill you” said Bakura. Bakura started to beat Ryou mercilessly using whips and his hands and feet. Three hours later Bakura did one too many kicks to Ryou's head and then he fell unconscious. When Ryou woke up an hour later he was in his soulroom. Bakura stood in the doorway and the TIOD lowered itself until it was equal to Ryou's shoulders. The holes for his hands opened so Ryou put his in. The holes on the TIOD closed entrapping Ryou's wrists. The TIOD then lifted itself so that Ryou's feet were eight inches off of the ground. Bakura sat on the floor of the room and used a knife to make patterns of blood on the bottom of the youth's feet. Bakura often making the cuts deep enough to get screams from Ryou. Once Ryou's feet were cut enough for Bakura, the TIOD lowered so that Ryou's feet on the floor causing him lots of pain. Bakura then used the knives to make semi-deep painful cuts on Ryou's arms and legs. Bakura left for an hour before the TIOD disappeared and the bed reappeared with the mythology book from class. Ryou didn't dare move until Bakura told him to which was another hour later “go to bed boy” he said. It was twelve then so Ryou was happy to oblige.