Yu-Gi-Oh! Fan Fiction ❯ Tears of Blood ❯ Spirit's Blood ( Chapter 9 )

[ X - Adult: No readers under 18. Contains Graphic Adult Themes/Extreme violence. ]

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/hikari to yami/

//yami to hikari//


Spirit's Blood


Bakura jumped back from the blast, but it caught both yami's in it's powerful torrent, throwing them violently back. Hitting a tree, Bakura summoned a dark black orb, opaque and radiating off fear.

"You want to play? Then FINE!" he threw it at Kaiba, smirking as the other spirit hit the ground limply. Then he noticed both he and Yami had thrown an orb at the same time, doubling the power of the hit. Kaiba had been too shocked to defend himself. (A/N: Kaiba is the dark Seto. Seto is the good Seto. Mkay? Plus I'm following Bakura through this, cuz Yami smells like poo.)

Bakura approached the limp figure silently, another darkness orb in his hand.

~You move, you die. Bastard.~ he thought. Something caught Bakura from behind, dragging him with it. Then Kaiba jumped him, a dagger in his hands.

The sharp weapon embedded itself in Bakura's chest, and the Yami screamed angrily, kicking out and pushing Kaiba off. A blue blast caught the azure eyed spirit from the side, going through and piercing his insides.


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Ryou suddenly clutched his chest and fell to the ground, just barely supporting himself with the other hand. Blood dripped from his chest, around his hand.

"Oh god, Ryou! What's wrong?!" Joey and the others were there in an instant.

"Bakura's hurt... something..." Ryou coughed, gasping. The pain was enough to make him want to scream forever, but something inside him pulled him back. Blood poured from his body to the ground, turning it a sick shade of maroon. Ryou writhed and gasped, it was getting harder to breathe....


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< br> Yami glanced around calmly. Kaiba had twisted out of his blast, and now the two were in a glare match. Yami muttered something beneath his breath, and a small glow of green surrounded and enveloped Bakura in it's magic, healing him.

Keeping Kaiba distracted, Yami pulled up onto a tree. Then Bakura jumped, yelling a war cry as he took the blade he had been slashed with and drove it deep into the middle of Kaiba's shoulder blades. The brunette screamed and fell to the ground.

A black rope of light tied up the severely weakened spirit, and Bakura smirked. He pulled a magical vial out of thin air, really from the Shadow Realm, and mentally tightened the ropes. Kaiba gave a last scream, and his blood, a sticky, black, glittering substance, poured from his back. Bakura carefully collected every drop until the form beneath him started to fade.

Getting off, Bakura hit it with a last orb of deep blue, and the spirit disappeared.

"I have a feeling this isn't the end." Yami said. Bakura growled, pocketing the vial.

"I have a feeling I'm going to kill you. I didn't need your damned help."

"Notice how he was weak at the start?" Yami asked. Bakura gave a curt nod, and started heading towards where his hikari was.

"I know. I used an old spell last night before he disappeared. Very effective." he
said. Yami arched his brows.

"The one...?"

"Yes. Now get your nose out of my business." he shot a glare at the former Pharaoh before disappearing in a mass of golden light, rejoining his hikari.


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Ryou stared as the wound and all the pain disappeared. His clothes mended themselves, and he stood up.

"Must've healed himself." Joey shrugged, meaning Bakura. Ryou could feel jolts as his Yami sent and received blasts, none of them very hurtful. Then something in him sparked, meaning his Yami had returned.

"It's over... Yami won, I guess." Ryou muttered.

"Well, I'm glad that's over." Yugi sighed, rubbing his head.


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Kaiba appeared in the Shadow Realm looking very pissed off.

"Hm. Well, I can attack again. Only..." he felt the wound between his shoulders. "The bastard stole my spiritual essence. I'll need to find a host.... or I could just capture him and be done with it....." he created a small yellow bubble, which absorbed him and fed him energy through his skin. When the bubble dispersed, he laughed and opened a
portal.

"Here my little Ryou. I don't need to beat them to get you back." he walked through the portal.....


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There was a bright flash of light, blinding everyone temporarily. Ryou felt someone grab him roughly and pull him back.

"Yami!" he screamed, but then was silenced by... something.

Slowly his vision came back, and it looked like he was in some sort of a vacuum. He couldn't breathe, but... didn't need too either. Then someone touched his shoulders, and he jumped back, turning around.

"You!" he cried in horror, staring at his captor. "You're dead!"

"Not quite my little flower." Kaiba sneered. "I told your son of a bitch Yami that you'd be my toy. And I was right now, wasn't I?" Ryou backed away, but Kaiba still advanced. Ryou froze when his thin frame bumped against the wall and Kaiba pushed against him.

"Now now, you have no need to worry. If you follow my wishes it won't hurt. If you struggle..." Kaiba paused to run a finger down the chalk-white face, "then I'll make sure I hurt you as much as humanely possible."

"See here my little Ryou, where we are right now I can bring you to the brink of death, the edge of ultimate pain, then bring you back for another round. I can torture you until you cough up your insides from screaming...." he brought a small knife out of his back pocket, showing it to Ryou.

"No you won't." Ryou whispered, holding his hands behind his back. He had to try to defend himself this time. Somehow. Information about the Ring, how to use it, flew through his head. He didn't know where the information came from nor did he care. He just knew he couldn't let this happen to him again.

Upon feeling the cold blade of the knife touch his cheek, Ryou summoned his Ring to obey him. He could feel it's power focusing and strengthening, bonding to his being. Again, he knew exactly what he was doing, despite the fact he had never done it.

Kaiba stared at the boy. His eyes had a glazed, determined look.

"I won't huh?" he asked, pressing the knife harder against the soft skin. Red blood started to weep around the edges as he increased pressure.

That's when Ryou fought back.

A bolt of pure white light slammed Kaiba back, knocking the knife from his hand. The weapon skidded across the floor, and with a thought Ryou destroyed it. He had unlocked the full power of the Ring and had mastered it in mere seconds. Or maybe it had mastered him. It didn't matter.

Ryou slowly advanced upon Kaiba, who had stood up and smirked.

"You have raped me, hurt me, and hurt your host. How many others have you injured?" Ryou asked innocently. Kaiba blinked, but, still smirking, answered.

"More than you have ever seen." he grinned. Ryou sighed inwardly. He didn't want to kill this spirit, but after what he had done.... he deserved death.

"The hell you're sorry. You just let him force himself on you, you didn't even yell for help or anything. Maybe you like being raped?" Bakura's words rang in Ryou's head. Ryou did have help that day. His Ring. He had just been too afraid to harness the power. Too afraid to stop and think. But now...

A blast of blue light, aimed at Ryou, was reflected as a silver shield surrounded the boy. He hadn't even conjured the shield, it was just like a reflex. Kaiba blinked and canceled the blast.

~How can this boy, obviously having never played a Shadow Game before, do that without a thought?~

Ryou's eyes had fixated on his target as a silver glow surrounded him, enveloped him in it's great and ancient magic. A grey light focused from the Ring, then hit Kaiba lightning quick.

Pain flew through his pains like wildfire, the light was lethal poison to Kaiba. He crumbled to the ground, now half alive. Ryou stood over him, eyes fixed with a deadly glare.

"I don't want to do this. But I must." then the antediluvian (meaning ancient, people!) power inside Ryou rose up, and he screamed something loudly in Egyptian. Sparkles of blinding gold flew from Ryou, and fell on Kaiba. He screamed in pain as the sparkles absorbed him with their magic, turning black in the process.

And then the screaming stopped, the sparkles turned to black dust and blew away on an invisible wind. The power in Ryou died like a living thing, and he collapsed from exhaustion. The Ring, which had been glowing brightly the whole time, died and turned normal once more.


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Once everyone regained their vision, it took mere seconds to figure out who had taken Ryou. Bakura had been left behind, somehow, even though he had been with his hikari at the time.

"He left no trace...." Bakura mumbled, feeling the air to see where Ryou had gone too. Nothing. Then he felt the Ring's power grow weaker in him, and he looked down. The Item was fading.

"No..." he gasped. Joey looked up, worry in his eyes.

"What's wrong Bakura?" then he noticed the Ring.

"What the?" Tristan gasped softly.

"The Ring was taken." Yami whispered. "Ryou was killed." Joey felt tears sting his eyes.

"Ryou was KILLED? No!" the tears streamed from his eyes. Yugi instantly tried to comfort his friend, even though he was close to crying himself.

Bakura felt the world get blurry and more insubstantial. Then it all turned black.



~*~TBC~*~


Well I'm on a roll w/ these cliffhangers! ^_~ So what do you think REALLY happened huh? Did Ryou win or did he die? Or both?!? Well, you have to wait 'till next chap to find out! (And I might not make it a happy ending either.... heh heh heh....)