Notes: I named Yami Bakura Bakura Ryou Itemri . Bakura’s last name comes from the ancient Egyptian language. “I” is the pronoun “I” . “Te” is “You” (I think). “Mr” means love. So literally speaking, Bakura’s last name means “I love you” in the ancient Egyptian language. Pretty cool, huh?
Warnings: NO LEMON, BUT THIS CHAPPIE IS A LITTLE ANGSTY, BUT GOOD.
Father and Son Confrontation
Steven woke up the next morning and quickly unlocked Ryou’s bedroom door. Inside, Ryou was cuddled fast asleep against his yami’s chest. His arm was draped over Bakura’s chest. Steven remembered Ryou as a toddler holding his mother the same way when he slept. At that time, they looked like angels, devoted mother and loving son, both his pride and joy. Ryou breathed sharply against Bakura whose arm fell to Ryou’s side as he slept to rub the offending injury. Steven could see the bruises Cinetti had made on his son and it made him almost tremble if it weren’t for the fact that Ryou and Bakura were once again in bed together.
Steven walked over to Bakura whose back moved with every calm inhalation of air. Steven touched Bakura’s soft hair and pulled it startling Ryou out of his sound sleep. Tears fell from Bakura’s eyes as a yelp escaped him and he fell from the bed naked. Steven wrapped his arm around Bakura’s neck. “Ryou! Don’t tell me you did this again!”
“We didn’t dad!”Ryou leaned over to Bakura trying to free his hair.
“I thought by locking the door it would stop this mess!”
Bakura struggled growling and snarling. “You can’t keep up apart!! I’m staying with Ryou!”
Steven yanked Bakura out of the room. Ryou stood to follow them, but screamed when he got to his feet holding his side. He used the phone in the room to call Yami and Yugi. He knew in his condition, he couldn’t defend himself against his enraged father.
“Game Shop. Yugi Mutou speaking.”
Ryou coughed. “Yugi….”
Yugi sounded concerned. “Ryou, are you hurt again?”
“Dad…Bakura..come over…”
“Yami! Hold on, Ryou!” Ryou hung up the phone. His heart stopped when he heard thumping down the stairs. Ryou struggled to put his pants on. Ryou walked out of the room to find the father and yami’s fight had migrated downstairs. Bakura staggered to his feet as Ryou ran to support him.
“You don’t seem so big now, spirit,” Steven sneered. Steven’s lip was bleeding indicating Bakura did get at least two good punches at Steven’s face.
Ryou stood before Steven. “How dare you hurt my yami!”
“You’re forgetting your place here, boy! Get your little scrawny behind over here!”
Steven reached out for Ryou and Ryou dodged him. Ryou punched Steven in the side where Cinetti hit him. Father and Son both doubled over holding their sides. The father recovered and punched Ryou. Bakura interceded and grabbed Steven’s throat. Steven grabbed the closest thing and whacked Bakura’s head with the small lamp breaking it. Bakura staggered back falling on the floor. Ryou jumped on his father’s back as his father backed into the wall hard. Ryou fell onto the ground with Bakura. Ryou held onto Bakura as a wave of nausea hit him.
Steven turned to Ryou in fury and grabbed his arm tightly. “You are going to stay in my sight from now on!”
Ryou put his hand on his father to steady himself. “I will not stop loving Bakura, dad. If I have to disobey you, so be it.” Ryou growled at his father holding his side. “I will not leave my yami no matter what you say, father.”
Steven slammed Ryou against the mantle knocking into the fishbowl. Bakura ran to Ryou’s side and grabbed Steven’s hand before it could slap his son. “Don’t you hurt your son! You hurt him enough already.”
Steven stormed out of the house knocking down Yugi and Yami outside. Ryou fell to his knees and felt a drop of water fall on his head. He looked above him and the fishbowl was cracked to the point of leaking. Yugi ran to Ryou. Bakura caught Ryou before he fell to the ground unconscious.
“Yami! Call the ambulance!”
Bakura joined Yami in the kitchen trying to get the fish another bowl to swim in. He
Gently tugged at the algae eater since it refused to leave the bowl. “Yami, let go of the bowl!” Bakura said finally releasing the creature from the glass. Yami Yugi turned around less than amused.
“You named the algae eater after me? Why don’t I get a snake and name it after you?”
Ryou coughed from the other room.
“I could have named another animal after you, pharaoh, but they didn’t have any dung beetles there.”
“Very funny, tomb robber! Why don’t you say we go to the zoo and I’ll buy you a jackass! That animal suits you fine!”
“While we’re there, let’s pick up a monkey for you!”
Yugi yelled from the other room. “Bakura! Yami! Hurry!”
“Look at you with nothing on! You are a monkey, and may I say they are the gifted ones!”
“THAT’S IT!” Bakura grabbed Yami’s jacket and shoving him into the wall. “I ought to take that phone and shove it right up your ass, you ass!”
Yugi ran into the room and grabbed the phone calling the emergency number. Bakura dropped Yami and returned to Ryou. Ryou was pale and his face was covered in sweat. His breathing became erratic and rapid. “Hold on, Ryou. Please hold on.”
Yami took pity on the tomb robber as much as he wouldn’t stand his occasionally cocky attitude. Bakura brushed Ryou’s hair back lovingly.
“Bakura, go get dressed. We’ll stay with Ryou,” Yugi suggested.
Bakura ran upstairs and changed. Bakura heard the ambulance horn blare from down the block. When he arrived downstairs, Ryou was on the stretcher and pleaded with Ryou to improve. “Come on, Ryou, stay with me. Please don’t leave me!”
Bakura demanded he go with them. Yugi and Yami had to come separately.
Inside the ambulance…….
The medics took Ryou’s vital signs and immediately examined the bruises. “who or what caused these?”
“His father punched him and this creep Thomas Cinetti punched him.”
“Father? Has this happened before?”
“His father slapped him yesterday and he solicited a whore for his son’s birthday. She sexually assaulted him.”
“When did all this occur?”
“Yesterday was his birthday. That’s when it all happened.”
“How old his he?”
“He’s seventeen now.”
The medics looked sympathetically at the boy on the stretcher.
“What’s his name?”
“Ryou Thomas Bakura.”
“Yours?”
“Bakura Ryou Itemri.”
The medics wrote all of this information on a chart as they examined Ryou. “What is your relationship to the patient?”
“Umm…significant other.”
The medics exchanged nervous glances. For a minute they looked like deer in the headlights. “Sig-Significant other?”
“I don’t want him to die, just do your jobs!”
The medics changed gloves and put masks on.
“What’s all that for?”
“He is a high-risk patient.”
They shifted their eyes taking notice of how interesting the bottom of the van was becoming. “We don’t want to—we’re protecting ourselves.”
“I don’t care if you wear hula skirts and dance with each other, just keep Ryou alive!”
The medics radioed the hospital saying that they had a “17 year old male in need of emergency surgery” and was considered an “at risk” patient.
“Do you have unprotected sex?” Bakura gave him an angry look. “Look, we have to know how to treat him and if he poses a risk to the hospital staff. If you don’t answer our questions, we won’t be able to help him.”
“No, I’m always protected. I keep a pen knife by the side of the bed. I learned to be careful when sleeping with someone.”
“No, condoms. Use them?” Bakura shrugged. The medics hands were obviously trembling now.”
“Was he ever tested?”
Bakura shrugged again. What was with the questions? Next he was going to ask him why the sky was blue!
“In school he had tests done, but I don’t know what he takes in school.”
“Have you ever had multiple partners?”
Bakura thought back to his time in ancient Egypt when a golden skinned boy caught his eye. His physique was masculine and very erotic. The aura around this boy was very seductive and attractive. He still remembered floating on a boat down the river Nile with him…in a time long ago.
“Marik Ishtar, but that was a long long time ago.”
“How long?”
“Long before I met Ryou.” Bakura took Ryou’s hand as the monitor beeped.
“His blood pressure is dropping fast!”
Bakura prayed to any god in heaven or in hell to help Ryou.
They wheeled Ryou to the emergency room. Bakura waited an hour before he could go into the waiting room. The doctors cleaned his cuts. Yugi ran in with Grandpa and Yami. Joey, Tristan, and Seto strolled in calmly trying to hide their own sense of panic. They knew Bakura needed their support and their strength. A lady in a dress suit walked into the ward. Bakura could feel every touch of the doctors and held his side trying to talk to Ryou through their mindlink, but it was quiet. As the minutes ticked away, Bakura feared Ryou’s life ticking away with every passing moment. Every tick of the clock was one less second he had with Ryou…and it hurt. He didn’t regret telling the medics who abused his lover. It was the only way to protect Ryou.
Joey walked up to Bakura and put his hand on the yami’s shoulder. “My old man used to hit me, too, Bakura. At least Ryou has you. Serenity lived with her mom, so I didn’t have anyone.”
The lady in the dress suit came out to the waiting room with another doctor. “Bakura Itemri?”
Bakura ran to the doctor. “How is Ryou? Please tell me he is going to be alright!”
“He is a difficult case and we have to keep him here for observation. He has a moderate case of Hemoptysis which is why he is coughing up some blood. He has a fever and his breathing is very fast. We do have him stabilized, but we want him to stay here. We have to make sure his lungs won’t bleed anymore.”
“What caused that?”
“He has evidence of blunt forced trauma to the chest and abdomen which caused some internal bleeding and-.”
Bakura looked at her teary eyes. “So, he will live?”
“It looks that way. His system is very weak, so we have him on feeding tubes now.”
Bakura hugged the doctor sobbing. “Thank you, doctor!”
“I’ll let you know when you can see him.”
The lady in the suit sat beside Bakura as Yugi rubbed Bakura’s back smiling. The others in the room cheered. “I’m here to talk about Ryou’s injuries.”
“His father and our neighbor Thomas Cinetti beat him up! He slapped his own son!” Bakura lifted his shirt to show the bruises from falling down the steps and the scar on his forehead from the fight.
“Ryou is a minor, correct?”
“Yes. I am his-.”
“We know who you are. I was told. As a minor, this is going to be handled like a child abuse case. We will have to take his father into custody. In the meantime, how old are you?”
Bakura laughed thinking of how the real answer would shock her. “I’m 20. I can take care of him.”
“I can arrange for alternative housing.”
“No. We are fine with each other.”
Bakura signed a form and the lady left. The yami sighed in relief. Ryou was going to be OK. Only Bakura was able to go in first. The machines around Ryou beeped and hummed with the pulse of his steady heartbeat. Bakura pulled a chair over to him and took Ryou’s hand. Ryou opened his eyes slowly when he saw his yami looking back at him. Ryou smiled at him and raised his hand slowly to pet Bakura’s cheek. “Ryou, that is the second time you scared me in these past two days.”
“The doctors say I’ll be fine, yami,” Ryou yawned. “I finally stood up to my father, but I don’t know if I made things worse.”
“This isn’t your fault, Ryou. I just want you to relax and sleep.”
Ryou brushed back some hair hiding Bakura’s tears. “Don’t cry, my love. I can’t see you smile if you cry.”
Bakura struggled to smile. “There, yami, that’s better. I want you to eat and go home and get some sleep.”
“I won’t leave you, Ryou. I’m staying right here beside you.”
Ryou tugged on Bakura’s shirt and pulled him closer. Ryou pulled Bakura down for a gentle kiss. Bakura’s tears fell on Ryou’s face. Bakura pulled away reluctantly taking his hand. Ryou blinked, smiled, and fell asleep, the heart monitor still beeping with the pulse of the boy. A quiet wailing echoed through the ICU spreading its tearful message with a painful cry.
Next Chappie: Ryou gets sent home and Steven gets arrested. Next chappie will be happy because Steven gets arrested with Cinetti!!! Yeah!!!
BECAUSE I AM GOING THROUGH MAJOR LEMON WITHDRAWAL, LEMON WILL BE IN A COUPLE CHAPPIES. NEXT CHAPPIE IS NO LEMON!!!! See? I always give you guys fair warning!!!!