This chappie contains romance and SHOUENEN-AI (kissing and hugging between two men).  If this isn't your thing, scroll down until you see the line of "****************************************".  The shouenen-ai is between the line of “*********************”.  Do not flame me for this.  The majority of my reviewers wanted a romance kissy-huggy scene between Ryou and Bakura, so here it is (the last chappie also has one).  I put ABSOLUTELY NO  GRAPHIC SEX in this fic for its rating.
Once again, this scene has SHOUENEN-AI!!!  Two men kissing--No likey, Scroll down to the line of "*************************".

Bakura: Any trauma you experience is not Bakuragirl's fault.  You have been warned.....Say it one more time, Ryou.
Ryou:  SHOUENEN-AI!!!!

Aishiteru (I love you)

   Bakura found himself in the living room in Ryou's home.  He heard a clang in the kitchen and a shuffling of metal pans.  "Ryou's back!!!"  Bakura ran into the kitchen and found Ryou back to normal.  He wasn't sick, his cheeks were no longer flushed.  Bakura grabbed Ryou's shoulders tightly as he looked at him from head to toe.  "Ryou, you're back!!"
Ryou narrowed his eyes and lightly touched Bakura's face.  A look of concern crossed his face.  "Are you feeling alright?  Maybe I should make you soup."
Bakura put his hand up to Ryou's on his cheek and closed his eyes, tears dropping down again.  With a quick motion, he pulled Ryou close to his chest and wrapped his arms around him.  The familiar heartbeat pulsed between the two of them, slow and steady.  Ryou returned the gesture nuzzling his cheek into Bakura's neck.
"I thought you were going to leave me, Ryou!" he sniffed holding back his gut wrenching sobs.  "Promise me you will never leave me!  Please!"
"I-I will never leave you, yami."
Bakura pulled back and looked into those sweet, forgiving, familiar chocolate orbs once again.  Ryou's lip trembled as his eyes glassed over.  "I-I thought you didn't care about me, yami.  I thought you wanted me to die...that you wanted to be free of me forever."
Bakura clenched his eyes shut letting the tears fall.  "I always want you by my side.  You are my other half.  You are my light.  You are my all, Ryou.  If I didn't have you, I would be nothing.  My existence would be meaningless."
"Aishiteru, Bakura.  Forever."

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Bakura assailed Ryou with his kiss.  Bakura could feel Ryou's breath quickening against his cheek.  Bakura roamed his hands over Ryou's soft hair trailing down to the warm flesh of Ryou's neck.  Bakura's hands rubbed his back through the heavy fabric of his sweater.
Both boys ended the tight kiss for a breath.  Bakura smiled as he gently wiped a tear from Ryou's cheek.
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Bakura and Ryou smiled at each other lost in each other's glistening eyes until they heard a soft knock on the door.  "I'll get that, Bakura.  I invited Yugi and his yami over for dinner.  Can you get the plates out of the dishwasher.  Coming!"  Ryou skipped outside and opened the door.  "BAKURA!!!!"  Bakura dropped the plates and ran to the living room finding a man dressed in black hovering over Ryou cowering on the ground.
"What do you want?"  Bakura asked trying to run to Ryou, but he was so afraid, he couldn't get his legs to move.
"Bring me all the valuables in this house!"  The man pulled up Ryou by the scuff of the neck facing Bakura.
"Put him down!"
"You want him?"  He held Ryou at arms' length from him.  Ryou's tears returned again.  "Come and get him, big guy."  Ryou whimpered in the man's tough grasp.
"I thought so.  We're going for a little trip up the stairs.  There's no reason for there to be an audience while I do this."
Ryou tried to pull away from the man, but he brought out a sharp blade and held it to his back.  "Bakura, he has a weapon," Ryou whispered.
"Quiet, you, or we'll be finished before we get started!"
The robber took them to Ryou's dad's bedroom.  Bakura had to bring out Ryou's mom's gold jewelery and her wedding band.
"No, Bakura!  That's my mom's!  You can't have it!"  Ryou began to struggle with the robber.  Bakura couldn't move he was so afraid of what the robber would do to Ryou.  He didn't want to further jeopardize his hikari.  Bakura froze as he watched Ryou try to free himself.  "Help me, Bakura!!! No, you can't have my mother's-AHH!"
Ryou stopped struggling and the robber pulled his blade out of Ryou's side.  Ryou fell to the ground holding his side gasping for breath.
"Bak-kur-ra," came out of Ryou as a mere whisper.  The robber ran out of the house.
Bakura took Ryou in his arms.  "You're going to be alright, Ryou.  Hold on," Bakura pleaded.
"Can't..."
"Ryou?  RYOU!!"  Bakura's tears fell in streams. Behind him, he could feel another presence.
He turned around and he saw a duplicate of himself grinning.  "Why are you so upset?"
"Ryou is gone...my hikari...my light...is..gone."
"He is mortal and expendable."
Bakura looked at the Ryou's body.  "He was not expendable!"
"Are you sure?"  The woman from Bakura's previous dream had returned.  Bakura dropped to his knees.  "Please save Ryou's life!  Give him back to me!  He's all I have in this world.  Don't take him away from me!"
"You still have alot to learn, Bakura.  He cannot be returned to you yet.  You have learned to protect him and care for him, but true compassion, true love requires something much more important."
"I'll give anything to save my Hikari.  Tell me what I have to do to prove to you that I have changed!"
"Sacrifice."
"Sacrifice?  I would give anything to see him unharmed!"
The woman walked to Ryou on the ground and kneeled beside him smoothing out his white hair.  "You must be willing to sacrifice yourself for him."
"I will do so!"
"What stopped you this time?  Ryou would be alive if you had moved to help him.  You say you would help him, but when the time came, you failed to act."
"I said before I couldn't change.  I thought it was impossible.  Now look at me!  I'm crying like a child!  I can't stop from shaking!  All I want is...I want him back.  I don't want him to suffer anymore because of me."  Bakura glared at his double beside him.
"That spirit is what I was.  Cruel and unkind."
"You must still prove yourself."

“This isn’t fair!  You said nothing about this!  I learned how to be loving and compassionate, now give Ryou back to me or-.”

The woman stretched her arms and clenched her fists again.  Bakura collapsed on Ryou’s fallen body, intense pain jarring his senses. 

“You have learned nothing, Yami Bakura!”

Bakura opened his eyes quickly, his tears dropping on Ryou’s cheek beside him.  Ryou was still his cute chibi self.  The dream felt so real, it terrified him.  Him!  His hands shook profusely as he touched Ryou’s face gently.  He held his breath and listened.  Ryou was still breathing.

“If I could have stopped myself, I would have.”

Bakura watched the baby sleep.  Bakura touched his rosy little cheeks and his cotton-like hair.  His chocolate brown orbs which glowed at him during the day were now closed and periodically fluttering.  Ryou slept with his thumb in his mouth and snuggled so close to him, he could hear and feel the baby’s heartbeat.  A smile found his way to Bakura’s lips.  He didn’t know why or how, but he realized he would do anything to protect this little life in his arms.  He kissed little Ryou on the forehead gently.  “I love you, Ryou.  My sweet little hikari.”

Ryou: That was so sweet, Bakurasgirl!

Bakura: I love you, too, Bakurasgirl!

I have received a request from one nanny Bakura Fan (I love you cheesepuff!) who wanted to do a fanart from my story.  I would love it! If you choose to do one, but please send me the URL in your review so I can see it.  I don’t mind if the picture is yaoi or not.  I love Ryou x Bakura fanart anyway whatever its content.  Please cite my story as a source or put a link to the story on ff.net.  Please give credit where credit is do and I will do the same to you and mention pics from the story in my reader response section of my chappies. 

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