\………\\- Ryou to Bakura through mindlink

//………//-Bakura to Ryou through mindlink

Join A Loved One

Steven woke early the next morning and walked downstairs to make some coffee. Today was going to be the day he would "rehabilitate" Ryou once and for all. It all came down to this! The seat by the window was empty where he saw Ryou the night before. Steven grabbed the newspaper outside and put on the coffee pot. Ryou was always awake this early….like his mother. Steven slowly climbed the steps as he heard a deep cough come from the room. Steven had locked the door to Ryou's bedroom the night before and he unlocked it to see why his son had not woke up.

Ryou was on his side gripping onto the empty space next to him breathing hoarsely. The room had become extremely hot from keeping the door closed and Steven had the windows bolted down so Ryou could not climb out of the room and escape into Bakura's arms.

"Ryou?" Steven went to his son and put a hand on his cheek. It was hot again. Ryou raised his hand and grabbed his father's shirt tightly.

"Did you take your medicine last night before going to bed?"

"Y-Y-Yes, Da-Daddy."

The medicine cabinet was out of cough syrup, so Steven ran downstairs and called Cinetti to watch over Ryou until he came back.

Cinetti came over and Steven answered the door. Steven grabbed Cinetti by the collar. "Don't lay a finger on him." Steven walked down the block slowly. Upstairs Cinetti could hear Ryou's coughing and slowly climbed the stairs. He opened the door and saw Ryou still gripping onto the sheets. The sick boy looked up and saw Cinetti smirking at him.

"What do you want? I-I….don't need your help."

"Your father says you are still sick."

Ryou closed his eyes and put his head back on the pillow. Ryou took in a staggered breath.

Cinetti advanced on the boy in the bed. He looked into Ryou's chocolate eyes. "Do you see where your behavior has done to you? You are sick, Ryou. Do you know why you are sick?"

Ryou gulped in a breath of air and tried to sit up, but Cinetti quickly pushed him back on the bed with little effort. Ryou coughed and looked into Cinetti's eyes. He didn't know what was inside those eyes or how to read them. He tried calling for his father, but his father never came to his rescue and he couldn't yell.

Cinetti kneeled before Ryou and began to caress his hot, red cheek. Ryou whimpered.

"You are sick because of the way you live, Ryou," Cinetti said with a smile.

\\ Yami! Yami! Cinetti's here with me! Alone! Wake up! Yami! Bakura! Please! \\

"I am not living your life, Cinetti…I am living my life the way I want to." Ryou's entire body began to relax and his eyes began to close. "And if this kills me, it's because I love Bakura. I don't regret loving him." Ryou opened his eyes. "I am sick because of you. You locked me in your cold basement and I ran through the rain to escape you."

Cinetti grabbed Ryou's collar. "You better watch yourself, Ryou. If you don't give me the proper respect, this won't be the first time I'd be responsible for the death of a member in your family."

Ryou's POV

What is he talking about? Was he going to kill me??? Looking in his eyes I realized what that emotion was….hatred. Why wasn't my daddy coming to help me? Why would he leave me alone with Cinetti when he knows I'm in no position to defend myself? Wait…..Did he have this planned? Kill me? For not living up to his expectations? I'm his son!

I couldn't suppress a cough as he held me too tightly by my collar. A trickle of liquid came from my mouth. Gratefully, Cinetti released me and I fell back onto the bed. I wiped my lip and tasted something coppery in my mouth. My mouth was bleeding. This couldn't be good. I fell back on the bed completely exhausted.

\\ Yami……Help me. \\

// I'm coming, Ryou! I'm bringing Malik and Marik with me too! We're almost out the door! //

\\ Yami, he's going to kill me! Hurry! \\

"What do you mean, Cinetti?" I coughed again. I had to know what he was talking about.

He leaned towards me whispering into my ear. "You wouldn't have remembered, Ryou. You were only a baby."

My eyes widened in shock and I gripped the pillow tightly. My pulse quickened. "What?"

"In time, Ryou," Cinetti kneeled beside me and I could feel him slipping a pillow from under my head! It was then that he began to caress my cheek and run his fingers down to my chest. "I will tell you a secret, Ryou. You promise not to tell?"

He brought the pillow to my chest and I began to cry. He was! I knew what he had planned and I tried to find the strength to fight.

"I will tell you anyway," He said leaning into me. "But I'm afraid you are going to tell no one."

I let out a weak whimper. "Please don't do this, Cinetti! As my thoughts whirled and the pillow hung over my chest like a guillotine, my breaths became sharper.

"Your father will not have to worry about you anymore. You will once again make your father proud."

\\ Yami! I love you, yami! \\

// We're coming to the house now! Hold on, my love! //

"Remember that night when you were a child and that robber came into the house? That was the night your

mother was kill-died."

I coughed into my hands more and more liquid covered them. My head fell back onto the pillow. I no longer felt like I had any strength. The liquid trickled down my face and onto my sheets. Cinetti turned my face to meet his. "You look just like your mother before she died." Cinetti's finger traced the crimson line down my jaw.

\\ Yami…I don't feel so good. \\

// I'm here, Ryou. I'm outside the door.//

Bakura's POV

Malik and Marik stood behind me listening to the drama unfolding in my love's bedroom. I couldn't help but growl in my throat when Cinetti stroked my lover's cheeks. Peeking my eyes into the room, I was terrified at Ryou's sickly appearance. The air in the room felt hot and it appeared that Steven had turned off the air conditioning and locked his son in the room with no air circulation! Why didn't Ryou open the windows? The air coming out of that room was like a furnace. No wonder Ryou was breathing as he did! It's a miracle he was breathing at all! Marik was holding me back with his arm.

I saw the pillow above my lover's chest. Cinetti was going to kill Ryou!

"I want to see where he's going with this speech, Bakura," Marik said.

Normal POV

"Yes…..just like your mother. It's fitting that you look the same in life and as in death."

Ryou began to cry harder choking on his own tears.

"You still cry? Why do you cry? You will join your mother at last, Ryou. You will no longer embarress your father with your antics. Steven can start a new life without you hanging around destroying what he's worked so hard for."

"I am not an embaressment, Cinetti. Please, don't do this."

Cinetti leaned over and kissed Ryou's cheek. "Even sickly you are such a handsome boy. I would love to see what makes your reputation so famous before you die." Cinetti put his mouth over Ryou's in a rough kiss. Ryou's eyes went wide and he began to struggle to push Cinetti off. Cinetti covered Ryou's nose and his mouth with his own mouth effectively cutting off any air. The villain pulled back and Ryou gasped for breath.

"It looks like this job is going to be easy."

"Job?"

Cinetti shook his head. "Look at you on your bed struggling to breathe coughing up and using up valuable air. Yes, this is a job I was hired to do. I always get the job done." Cinetti pulled out a dagger from his belt. Bakura recognized that dagger! It was from the one in his dream when he dreamed about the robbery of the house.

"Who hired you? My dad?"

"Your dad hired me to do another job similar to this one. It was a job you were too young to appreciate. Your dad ordered that job to protect you. You were being mothered to the extreme. You father feared you would turn out just like you are now-an embarressment."

"My mother loved me, Cinetti."

"Your father ordered that job to protect you from becoming a woman. You have become what your father despises. Though your dad had wished this on you, this time I am doing this on my own. I'm doing this for a friend. I don't want my friend's life ruined by you!"

"Cinetti……don't do this."

"Remember this dagger, Ryou?"

Bakura growled low in his throat.

Ryou gasped for air as Cinetti held down Ryou's chest.

"This is a very special item to me. What destroyed your mother will now destroy you! The Blood of Mother and Son shall christen this blade again! Blood of Mother and Son will once again bless this house!"

Cinetti ripped open Ryou's shirt and leaned down to kiss Ryou's left ribcage. "How fitting you and your mother will die the same way for you see, Ryou….," Cinetti leaned down to Ryou's ear. Ryou closed his eyes as tears came out in buckets, his breathing came in gasps, his body began to tremble.

"For you see, Ryou…….I ……killed…………your ……………….mother."

NEXT CHAPPIE: CINETTI'S FATE…I WILL SAY HE GETS WHAT HE DESERVES!!! RYOU DOESN'T DIE, GUYS! BAKURA, MALIK, AND MARIK ARE WAITING OUTSIDE.