Yu-Gi-Oh! Fan Fiction ❯ Youth ❯ Youth-Chapter 9 ( Chapter 9 )

Well here is chapter 9 sorry it took so long college and such I'll try to update more often any way I hope you like chapter 9 to "Youth" ENJOY!!!

Yugi watched Ryou as he gently fingered the pictures and looked at them intently. He cam upon one where it was just him and Ryou standing in line for a Ferris wheel ride at a fair. Both had large smiles on their faces, Yami was the one who had taken them that day.

"You remember that day Ryou? We ended up falling asleep on the ride home and Yami tucked us in bed afterward at my house...it was the first time you spent the night with me." Yugi said smiling broadly

Ryou looked up from the picture slowly, smiling just slightly, before putting it back in the box. He looked at it for a while though, while it lay in the box. Looking at it was soothing...because it made him feel happy inside. It was quite a while before he picked up another picture and looked over it intently.

Yami smiled a the two while they looked over the pictures, Ryou showing more and more emotion with every picture that he looked at as he held each one as if they were porcelain dolls. Yami remembered that day at the fair it was the first time he realized that he was attracted to Ryou and his own Hikari for that matter, he was hoping that everything would go smoothly in each step to his recovery. He looked over at Bakura who was also watching him intently...he seemed to do that a lot and to be honest he wasn't too sure he could trust Ryou alone with his Yami who was just abusive to Ryou a few weeks ago, he wanted to be positive that the Yami didn't hold a threat to Ryou.

Bakura smiled softly at Ryou, before looking at Yami. "I'm going to go out to get the ice cream. Do you want to come along?" He said turning to leave. "I'm sure Yugi has a flavor preference, and since I don't know it maybe you should come along." Bakura grumbled.

Ryou looked up from the picture slowly, to peer at the door, before looking back at the picture in his hands. It was a picture of a pillow fight him, Yugi, and Yami had once. Although Yami hadn't really participated as much as Yugi and Ryou had, it was still a funny picture, because all three of them had feathers sticking out of their hair and pajamas.

Yami decided it might be good to get out in the fresh air for a moment.

"Will you two be okay?" Yami asked not wanting to leave the tow boys with any insecurity but Yugi just nodded his head happily as he and Bakura walked out the door.

This also gave Yami the opportunity to give Bakura the speech about not hurting Ryou. "Bakura?" Yami said his voice deepening and becoming hard like that of a king talking to a subject.

Bakura turned after a moment. "What?" He said annoyed. If there was one thing Bakura couldn't stand, it was when Yami got all high and mighty.

"Ryou would have never been in Seto's path if he hadn't of run away from you...I need your word that he won't have a reason to run away from you again." Yami said sternly. "I promised never to hurt Ryou now it's your turn." He said simply

Yunikon16: Bakura scowled. "I don't think anything I could do to him from this point forward would even phase him. Nevertheless, even I know when someone has had enough. I wont be hurting Ryou anymore." He said after a moment, not bothering to look at Yami. "Ryou's had more than enough pain in his life...and I'm not about to cause him more. I know what he's gone through...and I wont be hurting him further."

"I know if it came down to it he would choose you over me and you know that too...you two are connected like me and him will never be, I want to be sure you wont hurt him mentally either." Yami paused for a moment "He's in a fragile state of mind right now and we don't know how long he will be this way either I need you to choose him over all others especially now, stay with him at all times...stay with him tonight and see if you can get him to talk again." Yami sighed "he is still afraid of you, that may be why he feels compelled to answer you, if you have to, use that fear to bring him back to us. It's not the most gentle of tactics I agree but you of all should believe in firm love right?" Yami said walking inside the small convince store.

Bakura nodded. "Of course. Marik used a similar tactic on me...but then again...I didn't take HIM seriously." He said, walking to the freezer section and pulling out Ryou's favorite flavor of ice cream. "Chocolate chip cookie dough. He's going to get fat off this stuff...I'll never understand. It's not very good. Too rich." Bakura grumbled, looking to Yami. "Pick a flavor for Yugi, I'm going to get my own personal preference of snack..." Bakura said smirking and heading to the liquor section.

Yami rolled his eyes grabbing a tub of mint chocolate chip and followed Bakura to the liquor getting a bottle of Jack for himself as he headed to the checkout.

"I'll meet you outside." Yami said walking off casually. He usually wasn't one to drink but felt like he deserved one after everything they had all been trough together not to mention it had been a while since he had, had any hard liquor within his reach both Yugi and his grandpa being strict non-alcoholic beverage personalities.

Bakura paid for the items, quickly leaving so he could open his own liquor and drinking it, relishing the slight burn in his throat on the way down. "I thought you were dry, especially since Yugi has such a strict moral on not drinking." Bakura mumbled, handing Yami his bottle of Jack, as they began their walk back. "Or is it for nerves?" Bakura added, taking another swig out of his own bottle of hard liquor. "Either way, I'm surprised."

"That's only because he can't hold liquor for the life of him and his grandpa is against it...I drink just not around him and I feel I deserve something to calm me down a bit...he won't let me smoke but he agreed to let me drink as long as I did it when he wasn't around. I don't really know why though it's not like I'm going to die from either anytime soon." Yami said smiling slightly at Bakura relishing in the slight cinnamon but tart taste to his drink, he usually got the tea or the lemonade but decided to have the real thing this time.

Bakura laughed slightly. "Now, I would be beyond tempted to spike Yugi's drinks or ice-cream if I were you...just for kicks." Bakura said shifting the bag in his hands. "But then again, the life of the party seems to go out when you have the Hikari who knows he's the boss." Bakura added taking another drink. "It's only sad that they don't sell what was popular back in Egypt around here...Now that's good stuff...damn I miss it." Bakura said thoughtfully, as they walked.

Yami smiled as he agreed "Unfortunately most don't know what they are missing out on...but I also think its what the locals call moonshine nowadays and it's illegal not to mention. At least we don't live in a dry city." Yami paused "And trust me he could taste the liquor before it hit his lips and throw whatever you spiked in your face...he was beyond mortified last time he was drunk and refused to go near the stuff again but Joey thought it would be fun for kicks like you, Yugi can be your best friend or worst enemy Joey nearly had that beer shoved up his ass before the night was over." Yami said shaking his head as he remembered Yugi chasing Joey around the house nearly succeeding in breaking the bottle over his head before Yami stopped him from killing his best friend.

Bakura burst into laughter. "That little Hikari? I'd have paid to see that. Ryou's so much easier to get...Marik did it." Bakura added after a moment to assure Yami it wasn't his idea. "He's a lightweight...but surprisingly coordinated when he's drunk. Marik got yelled at, and Ra as my witness I've never heard so many Briticisms in one sitting before in my life...I'm not even sure what he said to Marik exactly...and I doubt Marik knew either.." Bakura snickered at the memory of the dumbfounded looks on...well everyone's face as Ryou spouted off what might possibly have been insults...had anyone understood. "Anyhow, it was defiantly worth it. He drinks occasionally...like on holidays..." Bakura said walking up to the porch and opening the door.

"I was almost surprised that Ryou wasn't involved in the relationship between all three of you...Marik said he liked him." Yami said setting down the ice cream and making a bowl for Yugi as he made himself one more dirk but with ice this time. He almost wanted to just plain pass out like he had done so long ago but couldn't with Ryou and Yugi around.

Bakura shook his head, making Ryou a bowl of ice cream as well. "Do you honestly think someone as SHY as Ryou could possibly be in a foursome? As fun as that could be for Marik..." Bakura chuckled before also getting a cup of ice for his drink. "Then again, Marik's a fucking pervert." Bakura added in a slightly thoughtful tone. "And I sincerely doubt either Yugi or yourself meddle in perversions." Bakura said chuckling. "Because if you do, that will be the day." he said picking up the bowl of ice cream. "It's almost pleasant to talk to you when you're not busy being almighty...but don't expect this kind of treatment often." Bakura said, walking up the stairs to give his Hikari his well-earned ice cream.

"Nice to talk to you when your not being an ass, and same to you we don't want to scare our Hikari's to death now do we?" He said following Bakura as his Hikari gratefully took the ice cream and glared at him.

"What?" Yami said defensively noticing the glares Yugi gave him as he sat down next to Ryou again.

Bakura couldn't help but snicker slightly, before motioning like he had a whip followed by a personalized cracking noise.

Ryou looked at his ice cream for a moment, before picking the spoon up almost joyfully and eating. Although he was eating slowly, he looked very pleased, even smiling a little between bites.

Bakura smiled and shook his head. "He is going to get fat off of that stuff..."

Yami glared at him for the gesture but ignored him as he leaned up against the bedroom wall. Ryou was getting better he was almost to the point of actual realization of his surroundings he still seemed a bit confused but that would pass...he probably just needed to be around more things that reminded him of home, like a friends house or something.

"Yugi tonight I think Bakura and Ryou need some personal time and we need to talk about a getting a new place for ourselves so once your finished I'd like you to come downstairs all right?" Yami asked

"I...I don't want to leave him though..." Yugi said slightly scared he would have to see that blank expression in Ryou's eyes again he never wanted to see such a thing on Ryou's face ever again.

"I know Aibou but Bakura can connect with him like no one else can he might be able to help him more than you can, besides you didn't sleep much last night and need your rest, Ryou will be fine with Bakura...right?" Yami said looking at Bakura.

Bakura nodded. "Of course. Maybe if we're all really lucky I can get him talking. if not, at least talking to me." Bakura said sitting down near Ryou, who looked a bit uneasy about Yugi's leaving. He looked at Yugi pathetically as the two spike-haired teens left.

//Lets have a little talk Ryou.// Bakura said softly, yet sternly.

Ryou blinked and looked Bakura in the eyes, as if studying him.

Ryou lowered his head as he looked around the room as if searching for something to focus on other than his Yami. He was unnerved that Yugi had left him he felt safe with Yugi he knew that Yugi would keep him safe from anything the least bit threatening, but he was now left alone with someone who had hurt him before and Ryou wasn't sure if he would do it again while he was left alone and vulnerable.

Bakura grumbled. "Ryou! Pay attention to me when I speak to you." He bellowed, although he didn't sound threatening, just demanding. "I'm not going to hurt you, but you ARE going to pay attention to me. Now, when I speak to you, you're going to answer me, understand?"

Ryou winced when his Yami had yelled at him but did as he was told he was used to doing what Bakura wanted the two had their problems but he knew when not to press his luck with Bakura and he seemed irritated by something already.

Bakura smiled a bit. "I want you to start talking again. Lets start now...understand?" He said sternly. "You're not in any harm anymore and it's high time you crawled out of your shell and pieced yourself back together. Now, talk to me." Bakura added, taking Ryou's chin in his hand for a moment. "Yugi and Yami need to hear you talking again."

"I..." Ryou stopped he wanted to talk he was aware of everything around him but talking only seemed to make things worse for him.

//It get's me in trouble.// He said softly through the mind link. //it only causes problems// he added after a short moment not really wanting to voice anything and hoping Bakura would accept the mind link for at least now.

Bakura rolled his eyes. "How could it possibly get you into trouble. If anything, you'd make Yugi, Yami, and myself very happy. Now try again, you need to start talking...it's the only way to make things better." Bakura said firmly. "The sooner you start talking, the sooner everything will get better. Now talk."

"But it does..." He said softly almost inaudible "Every time I said something to Seto it always ended up coming out wrong and I did the same to you sometimes I mean to say one thing but something completely uncalled for is said and it makes things worse." He said softly. //if I hadn't been so mean to Seto when I saw him at the park I doubt he would have gotten to me...I don't remember how I got here either...where is Seto?" Ryou asked more things flooding back into his mind.

Bakura shook his head. "Seto's never going to hurt you again. Do you understand? He's gone and he's not coming back. He wont be hurting anyone. Yami, Marik and I made sure you are safe. I also promised not to hurt you anymore...Yami and I both promised to make sure you were never hurt again." Bakura said smiling. "Now, I want you to keep talking. Nothing you say will get you in trouble, or make things worse...because you are safe now."

Ryou was surprised by the sincerity in his Yami's voice, something he had never had the pleasure of experiencing himself, his Yami usually only spoke so kindly around Marik or Malik never to him, he gave a slight smile as he nodded his head. "I...I thought I was hurt...I don't remember being taken to a hospital or coming home at one point I was with Seto then I was here looking at pictures with Yugi...I don't remember anything before that." He said softly

Bakura smiled. "Well, you socked me in the face for starters. You have a mean punch, when you're panicking. We saved you from Seto, and Marik healed you...but you kept babbling about being raped again...you were so far gone...you just kept sobbing and staring at things blankly..." Bakura said shaking his head. "Yugi was the only one you'd let near you...so we just assumed you should pal around with him until you cooled down. But when he brushed your hair you started sobbing again..."

Ryou reached up running a hand through his now short hair "I can't believe it's gone...I've had it for so long and now it's gone, he sent Yami my hair I know that much, just to hurt him he did that...he also hurt you too, I did go back to him to get you back and to protect Yami and Yugi from him but I never though he would hurt me that much," Ryou sighed heavily "I feel so different though, like I've lost a part of myself somehow...like I'm empty eh made me feel so worthless and even though you say he can't hurt me again, I feel as if it all came to late." Ryou said his eye's stinging slightly.

Bakura nodded. "He took something from you that you'll never be able to replace...but that's when Yami told me something, that really got me thinking. He said that you would always be pure in soul, and nothing Seto could have ever done would be able to take that away...its your gift to give, and nothing can steal it." Bakura paused for a moment. "Or some other sugarcoated shit like that. The point is, you'll be ok, and judging by how Yugi's been mothering over you...both him and Yami will be here for you until the day you die, or send them away." Bakura said getting up. "The best thing you can do about what Seto has done, is not dwell on it...try to forget...but if you REALLY must think of him...you can always give him a lovely eulogy." Bakura said, slightly amused.

Ryou smiled, actually smiled big and brightly. "They seems to do that a lot I've noticed, always trying to make things appear better than they are, they see the glass half full...that's why I don't get they are still around me, I made them lose their home because they risked everything to get me away and then I was taken back again by him by my own free will. And yet they stayed near me...and took care of me." Ryou smiled softly as he looked at Bakura. "Did I really hit you?" He asked suddenly turning on a dime like the one, he tended to do from time to time.

Bakura grumbled. "Hell yes, and if you ever do it again, I will hit you right back...that was fucking annoying as all bloody hell!" Bakura boomed, although he looked amused. "You scared the shit out of Marik and Yami when you did it. You get points for that, but next time...hit someone else." Bakura said ruffling Ryou's hair, making it stick out at weird angles. "As for Yugi and Yami...they LOVE you..." Bakura said particularly annoyed with the L-word. "So, perhaps you should go down there and be loved."

Ryou looked toward the direction of the door biting his lip as a substitute for fidgeting with his hair. "I...I was hoping I could stay with you tonight, make everyone breakfast in the morning like I used to. Go back to the way things used to be before Seto and everything else..." Ryou wanted to hug his Yami but wouldn't dare touch him without permission "I just want to be with you tonight." Ryou said softly

"Fine, but this is the only time. If you think I'm going to go soft on you you're mistaken." Bakura said gruffly, although he didn't look one bit as menacing as he used to. "Any other requests?" He said, heading to the door. "I have to get them situated...you should wish them a goodnight." Bakura said, waiting to see if Ryou wanted anything before he left to get the two other teens into a room to sleep.

"No thank-you." Ryou replied sweetly as he laid his head down on his Yami's bed curling into a little ball smiling to himself as he watched Bakura leave. Ryou laughed slightly to himself his Yami was actually being nice to him! And told him that Yami and Yugi loved him, he had his doubts about them when he was at Seto's all the things he had said filled him with confusion...but they loved him actually cared about him which was the best feeling in the world he had ever had, ad the best part was that Bakura didn't seem angry about it either, he could actually be with them without Bakura hurting either of them, he sighed happily as he closed his eye's hoping to fall into a good night's sleep.

Bakura walked down the stairs and thumped Yami and Yugi slightly on the heads, since they had been speaking and hadn't noticed him come in. "Time to shut up and sleep. You two get the last room on the left upstairs." He grumbled. "Ryou said he would make breakfast tomorrow, but he doesn't want to see anyone but me for tonight apparently...so...sorry. Go to bed." He grumbled, before heading into the kitchen for the obligatory cup of water just incase Ryou woke up, which seemed very likely since he was prone to nightmares, before heading back up the stairs.

"He's talking again?" Yami asked grabbing him by the arm

"Actually speaking not just through your link?" Yugi added

Bakura nodded. "He's fine. He seemed a bit overjoyed at the fact that he punched me in the face though..." Bakura groaned. "Why?"

"I'd consider it payback..." Yugi grumbled slightly as eh folded his arms, even though he probably should be he was never afraid of Bakura or to speak his mind in front of the temperamental Yami. Yami thumped Yugi on the back of the head.

"Get along..." He said sternly. "Does he remember anything?" Yami asked curiously

"He remembers being at Setos...then looking at pictures with Yugi...but what happened between those times he doesn't remember in the slightest. I told him though, so he knows what happened." Bakura said glaring at Yugi. "Snot."

"Good I guess...if he needs us in any way though don't hesitate to wake either of us up all right?" Yami said before dragging Yugi into the guest room with him. He was a little surprised that he could get along with Bakura better than Yugi could.

Bakura put the glass of water down on the nightstand and shook his head lightly. Ryou was shivering lightly; he had kicked off his blankets. "Ryou...you're so aggravating sometimes..." Bakura said smiling and pulling the covers up over his Hikari, before lying next to him. "Goodnight." He mumbled yawning and closing his eyes. Ryou was home, and that is what mattered most, even if Ryou was aggravating.

Huza little bit 'o' fluff! Nevertheless, Ryou ends up with Yami and Yugi if you haven't already guessed so until next time!

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