Letters to Bakura Ch. 15

Bakura squirmed a bit in bed as a cold sweat covered his body.  This had been happening on some mornings, but it hadn’t been as close to clear as this before.  A figure watched from the corner of the room with his lips closed in the line.  Perhaps he should have warned the other about this part of the ritual.  It would be completed before the other would even wake up for work, but still he was worried about Bakura.  The start of the ritual was going to give him a memory and he didn’t even know which one it would give him.  Yuugi could only hope that is wasn’t THAT memory just yet but even if it was there was nothing he could do.

It was evening time and Bakura had just finished following Mokuba around shopping.  After he had spent the time to make sure there were no threats when he returned the younger Kaiba male home, he had gone to his own home. Tired and hungry from the day, he knew something was wrong the moment he walked in the door.  Yuugi wasn’t home and a quick check of both the house phone and his cell phone showed that Yuugi hadn’t texted or called him recently.  A cold feeling of dread trickled its way down Bakura’s back. Forgetting his hunger, he quickly put back on his jacket and went out looking for Yuugi.  The other hadn’t been himself since that graduation party and the death of Maximillion Pegasus.  

Searching through the streets, he felt an odd presence as in something that wasn’t supposed to be there but then it disappeared.  He couldn’t find anything to say where that presence came from and then a noise from the alleyway next to him caught his attention.  He heard moaning?  Was that… was that Yuugi? Quickly, Bakura went into the alleyway to see a scene he had been a bit afraid to see.  There was Yuugi and he was moaning but he wasn’t cheating on Bakura. In fact, it was just him sitting there moaning lightly at the blood on his skin.  Bakura knew Yuugi wasn’t hurt and he also knew he felt sorry for the poor bastard that Yuugi had killed.

“Bakura~” Yuugi said in a sing-song voice that held hints of seduction in its depths.  Those bright amethyst orbs were slightly darkened in addition to the smirk that had come upon the other’s features. Yuugi walked over to Bakura and wrapped his arms around the other.

“Yuugi, what… what is –“ Bakura’s words were cut off by the press of Yuugi’s blood covered fingers, two of them, to his lips.

The pharaoh’s hikari looked at him for a moment before smiling. “I was walking home Bakura and this man tried to attack me. I had to defend myself from him otherwise… I wouldn’t have been able to come home to you.” Yuugi told him softly. “Please don’t be mad at me for that.”

Bakura looked into Yuugi’s eyes. He would accept the explanation even if he didn’t necessarily believe the explanation.  There was something just off about it like Yuugi’s bit of moaning at having the blood on him. “I see. Let’s get out of here.” he said to Yuugi.

The other male perked up quite a bit at this and then stopped. “How about we go home, order out, and you help me get all nice and clean…” he trailed off suggestively making sure that Bakura would focus on something else then this ‘unfortunate’ incident.  It did after all look like a struggle had taken place and the dead man lost.

“That sounds like a good idea.” Bakura turned them away from the scene and began walking home with Yuugi.  Thankfully, no one paid any mind to them and while he felt that strange presence again but it disappeared again almost instantly. He promised to help Yuugi and that is what he was going to do.

Bakura woke up from the dream wondering why he was sweating as if he had the nightmare.  He quickly went over to where the letters were kept finding one from Yuugi apologizing for not telling him the completion of the ritual involved him getting a full memory.  The letter seemed hesitant if that was at all possible before finally the question was asked.

I am not sure what you saw, but will you still help me Bakura?

The dream resurfaced in Bakura’s mind as had the past letters before he answered in another letter.  

Yes.