Yu-Gi-Oh! Fan Fiction ❯ Second Chances ❯ The Reunion ( Chapter 2 )

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Diane: *glares* I have a mallet and I'm not afraid to use it

AR: *glares* I have a sword, a dagger, a flamethrower and I'll use 'em all if I have to

Ryou: *walks in* Hey, what are u guys doing?

Diane: O.O Ryou-chan, ur still alive!!! *glomps him*

AR: *rolls eyes* Of course he's alive, dimwit, I can't have Bakura being a drunk all the time

Bakura: What's so bad about being a drunk?

Diane: ^_^ Baku-chan!! *glomps him*

AR: Hey, how'd u two get here? It's a authors-only section!!

Ryou: *points to sign* It's also a hikari-and-yami section too

AR: Ahh, I see....Diane, stop glomping Bakura!! Heel, girl, heel!!

Diane: >.< I'm not a dog!!

AR: But u might be by the way you're clinging to him like a terrier with her favorite toy! (Small quote from "The Circle Opens: Street Magic". Tamora Pierce rocks!)

Diane: Save the dog comments for Joey or Seto...

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~ Normal POV ~

Malik and Marik finally convinced Bakura to come out of the house and go to the mall with them for one day. He sulked behind them as they walked into various different stores, looking at everything from graphic novels to clothes. He finally convinced them that he needed to go look for something on his own and that he would meet up with them at the entrance of the mall. When the two blondes walked away holding each others hand, he sighed with relief.

"I never knew how annoyingly persistent they could be until now," he muttered to himself, eying a small wine shop that was open in the mall. He shook his head, then walked straight past it. He had lost his taste for it after....that night.

'Now that those two are gone, what can I do?' he wondered idly, walking past a jewelry store that offered dog collars with spikes, chains, chokers, and a few odd pendants with strange symbols. He paused a minute to stare at a tiara that was shaped like a cobra, the head raised upright with it's fangs bared, then walked into the east wing of the mall.

He finally walked into a weaponry store and purchased a dagger, the blade a fine silver and the hilt gold with old runes engraved in it. (Diane: I don't think malls sells weapons AR: *shrugs* Let's assume some do) He walked out, plans of what to do with his new toy developing in his mind.

He leaned against the railing that ran along the walkway of the mall and looked down boredly at all the shoppers. He fingered the Millennium Ring that hung around his neck and fiddled with one of the pointers that hung from the circle. He couldn't bear to be without it nowadays, he felt so bare and naked without it. Sometimes he used it to visit Ryou's soulroom, even though it was completely devoid of any signs of life. The only thing that remained were some of Ryou's old clothes. He just sat there sometimes, sniffing the wonderful scent that was Ryou. It was smooth, cool and creamy, like vanilla. If you smelled it really deeply, you could smell a hint of colonge.

Bakura blinked, his blissful reminescent bubble broken. He could of sworn he heard Ryou's light and soft laughter. He shook his head, then continued to play with his Millennium Item. Ryou was dead, Ryou was dead, he had to keep on reminding himself that.

He froze, and the Millennium Ring clinked quietly against his chest. There it was again, that soft laughter that was exactly like his hikari's. No, it couldn't be...

The Millennium Ring flashed brightly and the pointer that was at the bottom of the ring glowed, tugging downwards. He quickly glanced downwards, and his heart leapt up when he saw the top of a white-haired person. Damn it, how many white-haired people did the Millennium Ring point to?!

"Ryou," he whispered, intently watching the youth walk into a store. Everything flew out of Bakura's mind, that Ryou was buried six feet under the ground, many miles away from the mall. All that he could think about, was how he was going to approach hikari and how he was going to greet him after so long.

He started to run to the staircase, not caring that people were shouting at him and cursing him. He raced down the staircase quickly, knocking bags out of the hands of passerbyers, and jumped down the last five steps of the stairs.

The albino youth was walking out of the store, a bag in hand and looking around to see where to go next. Bakura ran to catch up easily, blessing Ra for giving him long legs. When the young teen stopped and looked between two stores as if to decide which one to choose. Bakura hesitated, then cleared his throat.

"Ryou, is that you?"

His heart pounded, and it seemed like it took forever for the slim figure to twist around to see who it was that was speaking. When Bakura finally saw who the person was, his heart sank down, and his jaw hung open slightly.

The person he thought was Ryou, was a girl. She had the same long white hair, except it was much tamer and straight. That soft white hair framed her pale skin, her large doe brown eyes standing out starkly. She was about the same height as Ryou, and had the same intrest in clothes. She wore a pale blue sweater that had black stripes over a blouse, the collar and the cuffs poking out. Faded jeans rode low on her hips, and her scuffed sneakers tapped the linoleum floor gently.

"I'm sorry, but I think you've mistaken me with someone else," she said politely. She was puzzled however, this stranger seemed strangely familiar to her. And that necklace he was wearing, she felt like she had seen it before. Maybe it was just her imagination.

"Y-Yeah, you're right. You look a lot like my...friend Ryou," Bakura felt himself say. His mind was overflowing with questions. Why did she look like his Ryou? Why did the Millennium Ring point to her? Who was she?

"Did you and - Ryou? - get split up? This is a pretty big mall."

"...Yeah, you could say that."

"Well, I hope you find him."

Bakura felt his heart give a painful ache. That's something that Ryou would say. Could it be, that this girl was Ryou's reincarnation?

"I'm Bakura. What's your name?" She smiled, and he felt something starting to rise inside of him. Same smile as Ryou.

"I'm Ruki Bakutena. It's nice to meet you, Bakura." She started to walk away, and the ancient tomb robber confirmed his theory. That girl, Ruki, was definetely Ryou's reincarnation. He had always thought that if you were a boy, then you would come back as a boy, and the same for girls. Well, the ancient tablets never really said that, so it was possible that if you were a boy, you could reincarnate as a girl, and vice versa.

'I guess Ruki proved it,' Bakura thought rather dazedly, walking slowly to the entrance of the mall. Malik had his head resting against Marik's lap as they sat on a bench, several bags resting on the ground. Marik was absentmindedly running his fingers through Malik's blonde tresses, then looked up when Bakura showed up.

"Well, it took you long enough to show up. We've been waiting for half an hour already. So what kept ya?"

Bakura sank down onto the bench and sighed, running his hand through his spiky bangs. "Would you believe that I found Ryou's reincarnation here?"

Malik sat up suddenly and stared at him. "You're kidding, right?"

"Nope, but I wish I were," Bakura said glumly. Marik cocked his head.

"So then why are you so sad? Is Ryou's reincarnation a mohawk punk with a thousand body piercings?"

"Marik!"

"What?" he asked innocently, a smirk pulling at his lips. Bakura paused, then glanced over at the two blondes.

"Ryou got reincarnated....as a girl."

"What?!" Malik sputtered, his lavender eyes wide. Marik just raised an eyebrow at him, wondering about what his friend had just told him.

"Are you even sure that this girl's Ryou's reincarnation?"

"...Yes. Damn it, Marik, the Millennium Ring pointed it to her, and it doesn't just point at any albino person out there!!" he said irritably, fiddling with his Millennium Item again. He examined a pointer, then dropped it and sighed.

"I don't really know why, but I feel so...relieved, I guess, knowing that he's still out there. Even if he did come back in the opposite gender..."

Malik glanced at Marik, who shrugged helplessly. This was completely new for him.

"Well, I suppose we should get going now." Bakura got up and stretched, then picked up his bags. Malik and Marik did the same thing, then they walked out of the mall. A few minutes later, Ruki stepped out of her hiding place behind a giant potted plant.

She was just walking by, when she noticed that Bakura was sitting there with what she assumed were his friends. She was about to walk up to him to say hello, but her brown eyes widened when something inside her told her to run away, and fast.

~'Don't go near him! Must hide before he sees me!'~

The voice was too powerful to ignore, and it wasn't even hers. So she obeyed it, and hid behind the nearest potted plant. She carefully peered through the leaves to watch the thin albino boy talk about something with the wild-haired blonde, and the person that was in his lap. He too, seemed familiar to Ruki, but she didn't know where or why. When he left with his friends, who oddly looked like they could be twins, she stepped out, and watched as they walked across the parking lot.

"I wonder what they were talking about," she murmured to herself, her eyes locked on the boy that she met today. He kind of looked like a male version of her, if you thought about it long enough. And he seemed friendly enough to her, although he had a sad lonely feeling about him.

Then why would an unexpected voice tell her to flee from him? She barely knew him!! And it was voice inside of her head, one that she had never heard before. Maybe in her sleep, a ghost had entered her body or something.

'No,' she told herself firmly. 'I'm too old to believe in children's tales anymore. I'm sixteen, I'm doing well in school, and I have friends. Well, sort of...'

She shook her head, then pushed open the glass doors of the mall. She had to get back home before dinner, or else her mother would start wondering.

~ "Dad?" Ryou looked around as he opened the door and dropped the bookbag on the ground. He walked into the kitchen and started to fix himself a snack, but paused when he saw a note posted up on the refrigerator.

"'Dear Ryou, I just recieved a call asking if I wanted to go on a archelogical dig in India. I'll probably be gone for a couple of months, and I asked your grandmother to take care of you. She should be arriving tonight. Be a good boy for her, and I'm sorry I have to leave on such short notice. - Dad.' "

Ryou crumpled up the note and tossed it into the trashcan, his face unreadable. "He always has to leave for somewhere..." ~

Ruki blinked, then shook her head. Where did that come from? Great, she was hearing disembodied voices and having visions. Next thing you know, she'll be going into trances and claim that God was talking to her.

'I really have to get some sleep,' she thought tiredly, getting into a taxi that had pulled up to the curb. She told the the driver her address, then drove away, unknowing that she would meet up with the albino stranger again.

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AR: ^_^ Yay!! Done with chapter 2!!

Diane: ?_? Ryou? Girl? Reincarnation?

AR: Yeah, the idea came to me in a RPG I was in, becuz 1 of the girls, who's name if Akumu, used to be a boy in Ancient Egypt who was called "The Black Thief", but when he got reincarnated, he became Akumu. It might be confusing, but I liked the idea of it.

Diane: *hugging her Ryou plushie* Ryou-chan...girl...reincarnation...

AR: *rolls eyes* I think she's in shock, but she'll get over it. Anyway, Ruki is actually the Japanese name for Rika in Digimon 03, and since she's my fave character from Digimon (all 4 seasons anyway), I thought it would be cool to call Ryou's girl form Ruki.

Diane: Baku-chan...Ryou-chan....what'll happen?

AR: *pats Diane's back* You'll find out soon enough. Plz review, no flames, and ja ne!!!