Yu-Gi-Oh! Fan Fiction ❯ Ryou’s Series of Misfortunate Events: Heat Wave ❯ Reunited ( Chapter 4 )

Title: Ryou’s Series of Misfortunate Events: Part 2: Heat Wave
Chapter Title: Chapter 5: Reunited.
Rating: X
Pairing(s): Bakura x Ryou. Kinda Zork x Ryou kinda thing... you'll see.
Warning(s): Yaoi, abuse, Bakura OOCness, Blood, cussing and implied solo.
Disclaimer: I do not own Yugioh…
/Ryou to Bakura/
//Bakura to Ryou//
-Zork to Bakura-
~Bakura to Zork~
‘Thoughts’
“This is spoken Egyptian”

A/N: Thanks for the reviews... and sorry about the late update, you know how it is... life.

One final thing I would like to say... the RSoME a collection of short stories or saga's consisting of a minimum of six chapters and a maximum of eight chapters. No more and no less. Some of these short stories will be focused on a challenge or obstacle that Ryou and Bakura must overcome together... each will play off the events of the ones before it. (just so you all know... and aren't expecting some massive 30 chapter story out of this)

I hope that you all will continue to read... as Bakura/Ryou fanfiction seems to be slowly fading away... (thank god for sglily... we all love you.) So sglily... for feeding my Bakura/Ryou addiction... This is my way of thanking you... just for you... a lovely chapter. (I hope you like it... please like it!)

Also this chapter gets emotional... so yeah... warning: WAFFand sad...

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Bakura had spent all night and this morning searching for his hikari, he rode to the nearest cities and villages, followed every set of foot prints he saw, and was more than ready to comb every single grain of sand in the whole desert. When the sun had risen he was no longer searching for a walking figure, no, he spent all morning looking for a body, Ryou's body, hoping he could at least him.

It was mid afternoon, he had returned from searching not even an hour ago. The chances of find Ryou's body were slim to none, the only other possibility was Ryou had been found by someone... in that case, well, Ryou would be better off dead, either way he would never see Ryou again, ever.

Zork told him to get over it, the boy wasn't important, but all of Zork's words went unheard. Bakura wanted to put the blame on Zork, but he knew it was his own fault Ryou was gone, he was to blame not Zork.

Bakura sat staring silently out over the water of the oasisHis thoughts and memories of Ryou were running in over drive and were blending together, spinning like a slide-show inside his head. The tomb robber lowered his head so that his bangs covered his eyes, he bit his lip trying to stop himself, but the tears fell regardless.

~*~*~

Ryou's emerald eyes fluttered open meeting a mass of red, black and gold hair done up in an usual style. The pharaoh. It was then everything hit him. He had told Bakura that he didn't want to left behind anymore, and then had waited for his dark outside but Bakura never came so he left his home away from home, but how did he get here? Did he pass out?

“Ryou, what happened to you? What did Bakura do to you?” Pharaoh Yami accused immediately, not even asking if he as alright or anything. He couldn't believe this, Bakura hadn't seriously hurt him since the power outage and yet here was someone who didn't even know Bakura, accusing him so bluntly.

“He didn't do anything to me.” Ryou spat coldly, forcing his achingbody to sit up right. He felt filthy having not bathed since the day he left the oasis, however long ago that was, and his hair was mess and by the look on Pharaoh Yami's face he didn't believe in Bakura's innocence. Today really was one of the those bad days. After he got cleaned up he could think of a way to get back to Bakura.

“Ryou... it's okay you can tell me,” Pharaoh Yami soothed, trying to pry information that didn't exist from him.

“A bath. Can I take a bath?” Ryou interjected, his fingers tightly gripped the thin sheet that covered him, choosing to change the subject before jumping to Bakura's defense and getting himself in trouble.

Thankfully Pharaoh Yami agreed to allowing him to clean himself up. He stared that the bath he would be using, it was nothing more than a hole in the floor with water in it. Ryou stripped down to his boxers, he refused to take them off while Yami was watching him, hidden under his boxers was a nasty bruise Bakura had given him. Ryou turned red just thinking about how he got it. It was the day before Bakura took the Millennium Puzzle, they had almost had... almost made love that afternoon.

Ryou slipped into the freezing cold water. He had dreamed about what almost happened, what he wanted to happen, for years, since Duelist Kingdom. Never did he dream it would feel so good, having Bakura's body pressed against his, Bakura's hands exploring him, Bakura's lips on his own, Bakura's... Ryou's face flushed when he thought about that part of Bakura's body being pressed against him. Ryou was silently thankful he was immersed in icy cold water.

He closed his eyes and inhaled deeply and sank beneath the surface, this would have to do without soap or shampoo. He resurfaced and attempted to wash himself the best he could also trying to keep his thoughts away from that day with Bakura. He sighed as his thoughts turned to a more depressing subject involving his dark.

Has Bakura noticed he was gone? Did Bakura even care? Was he worried? Did Bakura look for him? Did Bakura even want him back? What was wrong with Bakura anyways? He chewed on his bottom lip once again trying to get his mind of the sexy thief king whom was haunting his thoughts, there was nothing he could do at the moment. He had gotten the hint that Yami Yugi wasn't just going to let him walk out of here, and certainly not back to Bakura.

~*~

Ryou sat at a large table surrounded by his chattering friends, he had his elbow propped up on the table and rested his cheek bone on his knuckles. He looked like the walking dead, he was paler than normal and extremely depressed, and was completely uninterested in anything anyone said. This was always how it was when he was separated from his dark, his soul would ache, the feeling of loneliness would strike and depression would follow.

Bakura's end of the mind link was cold, deserted and empty, however this was nothing new, Ryou had figured it had something to do with whatever was wrong with his dark. He knew Bakura was ill, that something was wasn't right. It was Bakura who put an end to passionate kissing that had almost resulted in sex, he was the one who walked away, it that day he didn't see Bakura as the man he has teased about wearing a skirt and had chased him down playfully, no he had seen someone that wasn't him at all. He could have sworn that he had seen a hint of fear, but had dismissed it then. The more time he had spent around Bakura the more he changed, and not in the good way either....

Ryou had gotten so caught up in reflecting on the changing Bakura he hadn't realized that Yugi had asked him a question. “Well Ryou, what do you think?” Ryou shot them a puzzled look.

“Excuse me? Could you repeat the question... I must have zoned out. Sorry.” Ryou apologized not realizing he had used Egyptian in his sentence, which he had picked up from Bakura. This caused everyone to stare at him like he was growing another arm or something. “What?”

“Where did you learn to speak Egyptian?” Pharaoh Yami asked accusingly. Ryou glanced at him with a look of sheer distaste, he now understood how is dark could hate someone so much, just looking at the man made him physically ill. The man was paranoid about everything, and when it came to his dark all he did was throw around accusations.

“Bakura taught me, so I could go to the market without him having to translate for me and so I wouldn't get ripped off.” Ryou replied innocently, flashing them all a with a uncharacteristic smirk. The great-almighty-lord-of-all-things-pure Pharaoh looked as if he had lost a duel.

“The market?” Yami stuttered out in shock. He sat down, unable to handle the news of Bakura doing something nice.

“Yes, he always gave me money and used let me go spend it how I wish, however the vendors took advantage of me because I couldn't speak their language and always ripped me off. Bakura had to stay with me to make sure I got what I paid for,” Ryou explained unnecessarily, enjoying the looks on everyone's face, “and if they tried to rip me off, he would deal with it.”

Ryou tilted his chair back, as they stared at him, a look of disbelief on their faces. Since coming to this time Bakura didn't mistreat him at all, other then not speaking to him, but that wasn't abusive nor mistreatment. Ryou sighed and tried to think of a way to get out of here and back to his dark, but soon began to wonder if that was a good idea, Bakura was sick, as in something was wrong with him and what if that illness effected his judgment? Making Bakura return to his old abusive ways... no Bakura wouldn't hit him again. He just wouldn't and thinking like this wasn't going to help the situation.

“You're kidding right?” Anzu's question hung in the air, it was the one question everyone wanted to ask, but she was the one who voiced it. Everyone's eyes stayed focused on Ryou, looking to see if he was in fact being dishonest with his last statement on Bakura's behalf.

“No, I'm not kidding. I mean he would get upset at the amount of his money I would spend, he would say he didn't know it was possible for someone to spend so much at one time... but that was it....” Ryou repeated the memory from a couple days ago. “He also taught me how to ride a horse.”

However it didn't take Ryou long to figure out that they weren't going to believe him and that playing Bakura off as a nice person wasn't going to work. Ryou sighed again and prodded the mind link he shared with his dark.

/Bakura... are you there?/

And yet he got no reply, but he couldn't figure out why. Maybe Bakura was glad he was gone...

~*~

Zork had become more restless since Ryou's disappearance. Bakura had lost interest in his plans to get revenge on the Pharaoh, all he seemed to care about now was finding his hikari. He had to get Bakura back on track, which meant blocking out Ryou's mind link messages, the boy had become an obstacle, a liability, and with the boy out the picture he could claim all of Bakura's mind. Just as soon as Bakura realized that his hikari was dead, even if it wasn't true. Ryou's choice to leave couldn't have come at a better time, if Ryou was still here there was a chance Bakura may not of wanted to go through with the original plan, that Bakura would have chosen to remain with his light, instead of completing the task fate had set for him.

Zork had been blocking out the boy's mental message all day, however Bakura was still lost in self-pity and depression and he was still blaming himself for Ryou not being here. To be completely honest he had no idea the spirit Bakura felt so strongly towards his light... now that Ryou was gone Bakura was an emotional wreck, no matter how hard he tried to hide it.

Zork had to get Bakura to his village... after that he could move on to a new and better host, after all it is at that village Bakura's life would end. Getting Bakura to Kuru-Eruna now seemed to be impossible as Bakura was still wrapped up in his thoughts of Ryou, this would take more manipulation then he had originally planned.

-Bakura-

~...~

Zork growled at Bakura's lack of interest and response. The spirit was now being difficult, however Zork was up to challenge, he had to be. Bakura was his chosen host for now, and would remain it until he was dead, once Bakura was dead he could finally break free of his prison inside Bakura's mind and be released upon the unsuspecting world, and only one who had the power to stop him... had walked away and was now missing.

-Bakura! Ryou is gone no amount of crying or regret is going to bring him back-

Zork offered comforting, hoping Bakura would fall into the trap of manipulation, much to his surprise Bakura responded and went for the bait. Bakura was normally more aware of tricks and traps, his mind always questioning the hidden motive, but not this time.

-You must let it go. He knew better than to leave, you told him the dangers of your world and he left anyways, this is not your fault-

~I didn't tell him all the dangers... I didn't....~

-Bakura, I thought you didn't care about him... but you do... it is understandable... but he's gone and he isn't going to come back... You know who is to blame for this... the pharaoh. He murdered your people. He drove you to revenge and obsession. He made you want revenge and he was the one who is responsible for driving the wedge between you and your hikari-

Bakura fell silent and listened to Zork, finding it easy to place the blame on Atemu. Blaming someone else for your mistakes was easier than admitting your own wrongs and taking the blame for yourself, for your own mistakes, for his own mistakes. Bakura knew deep down that Zork was wrong and this wasn't true... but is was so easy to believe... so easy to relieve the guilt.

-He took Ryou from you... now make him pay. This is all his fault! He took your home, your family, your friends, your life and now he has taken your hikari from you, and you plan on letting him get away with this?-

~No... no... no I won't~

-Now, shall we finish what we started... only now you not only want revenge for your people, but for Ryou too... remember that-

Zork mentally patted himself on the back. Bakura was in a weakened state... so easy to take advantage of. Bakura was fragile now and be easily swayed, thus the reason for him wanting Ryou out the picture, permanently.

~*~

Ryou had broken off from the group, he found it odd that he could see, hear and talk to them, but no one else other then Yami Yugi could, not only that, but that everyone in this land could see and hear him.

He sat alone of the palace stairs, looking out at the desert, his mind returned to the subject that had plagued him since he had awoke; Bakura. He tried to push the depressing thoughts from his mind, he tried to think of other things, but it was useless. Bakura was like a plague on his own. He worked his way into Ryou's life, and his heart, and infected every cell of his body with emotions he had never felt for another person before. He wondered what Bakura was doing, if Bakura missed him, if Bakura had even noticed he was gone.

“It's Bakura! He's at the village known a Kuru-Eruna!” Ryou froze at the mention of his darks name and the village his dark had once called home. The voice, the soft spoken voice... that voice belonged to Isis.

Ryou shot to his feet and followed the sound of Isis' voice. He ran as fast as he could, this could be his only chance to leave the palace and see Bakura again, even if his dark did not want to see him. Ryou pushed his way towards Atemu, giving the man a heated glare when he was looked down upon as if he was nothing.

“I'm going with you.” Ryou stated coldly, not backing down from Atemu's gaze, he wasn't going to step down. He had to see his dark again. He just had to.

“No! Bakura is dangerous, you'll just get-”

“In the way? I doubt that! I know Bakura better than you ever will...” Ryou paused, forcing his mind to come up with something, finally he chose to rip a page out of Bakura's book and bluffed it, and very convincingly too, “I know how to stop him!” Ryou almost shouted, trying to get his point across. He was lying, but that didn't matter anymore, all the mattered was Bakura.

The look that had attacked Atemu's face was one of disbelief, if Ryou did in fact know how to stop Bakura... his knowledge would be needed, was it a chance he was willing to take? He knew Ryou well enough to know what Ryou would not hand over such priceless information to him, meaning we would have to take Ryou along.

“You can stop him?”

“I've stopped him before, remember? Monster World and Duelist Kingdom. Damn it Yami I know him, I live with him, I shared my body, my mind and my soul with him, I know him! Better than any of you could ever know! I'm going with you.” Ryou breathing intensified, he knew the look in Yami's eyes, the Pharaoh believed him.

“Okay... you can come...,” Yami gave in, but something inside of him still held some doubt about Ryou and his intentions.

~*~

The ride to the small village of Kuru-Eruna was less than exciting, Yami had gone ahead with Mana, Yugi and the others had stayed behind and he was currently riding his horse in line with Seth. The animal was moving as fast as it could, but it just wasn't fast enough for him with Bakura being so close. He wondered what Bakura's reaction to seeing him would be.

Ryou had been thinking about Bakura's life story and the time line he was currently in... that's when the realization hit Ryou like a ton of bricks. This is the part of story where Bakura dies. Bakura's life was supposed to end at Kuru-Eruna. As much as he wanted to see the Pharaoh fall he wasn't going to let this take Bakura's life again.

The village came into view, there was something about it that just wasn't right... the whole area was engulfed in a wave of Shadow Magic. It felt so dark and wrong. As soon as they entered the ocean of shadow magic they were attacked by the lost and lonely souls. Ryou shuddered, he could feel Bakura's presence, all he had to was find him.

Ryou pulled on the horse's reins, forcing the massive and powerful animal to stop, the lost souls of Bakura's family and friends attacked Seth and the others, but didn't pay any more attention to Ryou than if he was a rock. Ryou took off, he ran towards the shadow magic's core, that was where Bakura was.

Ryou quickly found the stairs that lead down into darkness. Bakura was down there.

~*~

Bakura had just finished telling the Pharaoh about what is father had done to his village, his people, his family, his home, what he had bared witness to. All done to create the golden trinkets. He was about to continue when he heard familiar foot steps as they ascended the stairs towards them. The hand that held the bag of MillItems he had stolen thus far tightened around the bag as his hopes rose. He had lived with Ryou and knew knew Ryou's foot steps from the night time walks to get a glass of water and the like. The slight pause between his fifth and sixth step had pulled Bakura's attention from the pharaoh standing before him to the stairs, his throat went dry and pulse quickened.

Zork quickly found his plan had back fired on him, it was time to do something drastic, he fished through Bakura's memories until he found a very explicit dream that had occurred during the power outage, one that brought both obscene jealously and raging doubt as to Ryou's loyal rushing forward at the time, a dream of Ryou in the Pharaoh's bed. Perhaps it would enough to cause a rift in the reunion.

He could feel Bakura's doubt beginning to swell and take shape however all of it vanished when Ryou stepped out of the darkness and locked eyes with his dark. What happened next was like a scene out of one of those cheesy romance movies, well sort of, as Ryou ran into Bakura body, clinging to him for dear life. Bakura reaction was delayed at best, his brain wasn't keeping up with that was going on around him.

Ryou was alive.

Ryou is alive.

Bakura slowly caught up with the rest of world and wrapped his arms around his hikari, but he wouldn't let go of the bag in his hand. Bakura remembered where he was and who was here with him... the Pharaoh... and the look in Atemu's eyes at the moment... that dream... caused Bakura pulled Ryou even closer to him, just to make sure the pharaoh knew who Ryou belonged to.

/I'm so sorry... sorry... I am sorry!/ Ryou repeated through their mind link as he continued to cling to his dark.

//I'm the one who should be sorry... this is all my fault. Oh, Ryou. I was beyond worried... I-I thought you were dead. Why didn't you try to contact me?//

/I did, several times... I thought... you were ignoring me... that you didn't want me around anymore/

Bakura froze at Ryou's last statement... he had tried... Zork! Zork had blocked out Ryou's mental messages! Bakura could feel his anger towards the darkness inside his mind rising he wanted nothing more than Zork to have his own body just so he could kill him.

Ryou felt Bakura's grip around him tighten, being in Bakura's arms like this, hearing those words made his heart soar. He buried his face into Bakura's chest, not daring to move and hoping this wasn't a dream.

//Ryou... don't ever pull a stunt like that ever again! You have no idea... I spent hours wandering the desert looking for you. Where were you at anyways?//

/The palace... the guards found me passed out and took me back there. They weren't going to let me come here. Yami said I would only get in the way/

Bakura anger towards everyone in this world was causing him to feel ill. Ryou was the only thing of any importance to him, and they were trying to take that from him too.

//I wish you hadn't of come here//

Bakura felt the overwhelming pain of rejection flowing through the mind link. He didn't want Ryou to watch him die. It was at this place on this day his life was fated to end and he hadn't wanted to put Ryou through that.

//I didn't want you to see what I have to do-//

/Oh, Bakura, please don't do this!/

Ryou's words echoed the sickening heartache and worry the boy was feeling and was trying so hard to cover up. Ryou pulled away from Bakura to look him in the eyes. As their gazes locked Bakura could see the pleading look. He couldn't bring himself to keep Ryou's stare and looked away.

Ryou let his anger about the situation take over in his words.

/If you die here, I'm going to back to my time alone! I don't want to go back without you. Damn it Bakura, you've changed so much, you worked so hard and all you're doing is throwing it all away. Doesn't any of this mean anything to you? I love you and I don't want to lose you, please, I'm begging you, don't do this/

//I can't. I have to get revenge....//

/Fuck Bakura! How are you going to get your revenge if you die and he lives? What kind of revenge is that? I don't know who is putting these idea's in your head, but you are smarted than this. You'll be dying for nothing! After you die this whole process will repeat itself like a never ending circle. A cycle where I'm the one left in ruins and you are dead, while Yami Yugi goes on his merry way and lives happy ever after!/

//Ryou-//

/Don't you think you deserve a happy ending? Doesn't any of this mean anything to you? Don't I mean anything to you?/

Ryou's words lingered in his mind... in his thoughts. Now he was faced with a choice he didn't want to make, but had to. He looked at the Pharaoh who was standing there with a look of shock on his face before looking back at Ryou. The battle inside of him was getting out of control and much to his own surprise he found Zork to be silent. Perhaps the dark voice was unable to argue with Ryou's words, was there even a valid argument to what Ryou said? No.

Bakura looked back at the Pharaoh, giving the man a nasty look before closing his eyes and inhaling deeply. He wanted time to think about this, but he wasn't granted that luxury. This decision had to be made now and on a sheer whim. What was more important to him; Ryou or Revenge?

“Ryou.... I... I...”

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See sglily, you're not the only one who can have a killer cliff-hanger.

So what will Bakura choose? Ryou or Revenge? Guess you'll just have to wait and read the next chapter.

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