Yu-Gi-Oh! Fan Fiction ❯ Half a soul ❯ New life ( Chapter 2 )

Half a soul

by

serene_ai

Rating: PG

Pairings: kind of Bakura + Ryou, SetoxRyou and maybe more to come

Warnings: yaoi, Anzu/Tea-bashing, spoilers (mostly because I haven't gotten very far in watching or reading Yu-Gi-Oh), eventually bad english

Disclaimer: I don't own Yu-Gi-Oh, never have and never will

Thanks to all reviewer ^_______^

Arigathou, minna-san! Thanks to all that already wrote a review and to those who plan to do so or do so later on ^-^

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Although Ryou felt slightly uneasy living suddenly somewhere else and with someone else, he also felt slightly relived. No longer would he be alone once school was over.

Since he still felt a little guilty for being such a burden, he asked the blue eyed CEO again if it really was okay to live with him and once again the answer was yes.

Seto even helped him moving his things into the limousine, that waited in front of his house. "I really need to buy new clothes...", he thought, while putting his into a suitcase.

"You finished?", Seto asked a few minutes later, when he grabbed the suitcase Ryou just tried to carry down the stairs. "Yes, I guess, I am.", the white haired boy smiled at him. The brown haired one nodded and then he waited in the limo while Ryou locked the door.

"Wow, this is awesome!", the boy gasped, once he had entered the household of Seto Kaiba. Seto actually blushed slightly and ordered his personal to bring the suitcases and other things that were in the limousine into the guestroom, he had ordered to prepare in the meantime.

"Big brother!", a happy voice yelled, this was the whole warning he got, before he got hugged from behind by Mokuba.

Seto hugged his brother back, when this one let go of him and Ryou watched the scene with a gentle smile on his lips. He remembered greeting his dad once like this.

"Mokuba, we have a guest. It's Ryou, I'm sure you still remember him. He is going to live with us.", Seto explained to his younger brother, who shook the hand of the other boy. "That's cool with me!", Mokuba grinned and told Ryou that he was happy that now there would be someone to talk to, when Seto once again would get lost within his work.

The albino couldn't help but laugh on this, while Seto seemed a bit embarrassed, but quickly covered it up with a scowl. "Mokuba!", he said warningly. "What?!", the boy replied. "It's true! Don't deny it!"

With a sigh of defence he lifted his hands. "Okay!"

While Seto now excused himself, for he really had to go to work now, Mokuba decided to help Ryou unpack. When they finally finished this, Ryou asked him if he wanted to join him going shopping, for he needed a few new clothes.

Of course Mokuba immediately agreed and went along.

The albino soon found out, that it was Mokuba who had made Seto wearing that trench coat of his, because he had thought it would look good at him. And right now the black haired one was playing mode adviser with Ryou and told him what to try on and what would look good on him.

Mokuba was right indeed. When the two of them finished shopping Ryou had more then `a few' clothes more. Luckily Ryou had saved the money before, for he had never really needed it, except for food.

When they came home Mokuba convinced the white haired boy to play one of his many games at his computer with him and so they had very much fun until it was time for dinner. Usually Mokuba simply would order something, but Ryou insisted on cooking, for he somehow wanted to thank Seto the favour of letting him live with them, without expecting anything in return.

The teenager also made sure that Mokuba didn't stay up longer then ten o'clock, for he knew that the younger one would need his amount of sleep.

Since Seto still wasn't at home at eleven, Ryou left him a notice and went to bed as well.

Around two in the morning a very tired and kind of hungry Seto entered the mansion. In search for food he went straight to the kitchen, where the notice of Ryou lay on the table.

"Food is in the microwave, just press start and wait a little and it should be finished. Sleep well. Ryou", stood on it. A small smile played around his lips and he did what the sheet of paper said.

An half hour later he found his way into the warm layers of his bed as well.

At seven o'clock in the morning the alarm went of and Seto found himself groggily reaching for it, to turn it off. He wasn't exactly a morning person and everyone knew that. Rubbing the sleep out of his eyes he went into his bathroom and took a quick shower, before he changed into his school uniform, mumbling some curses under his breath.

Suddenly someone knocked at the door. "Breakfast is ready, big brother!", Mokuba's voice rang through it and Seto could hear him bouncing back down the stairs into the kitchen.

Raising and eyebrow, he took his schoolbag and went down into the kitchen as well. The sight that greeted him, made him smile softly.

Mokuba was just putting plates and cutlery on the table, while Ryou had put his long hair in a ponytail and was standing in front of the stove, wearing his school uniform without the blue jacket - which hang over a chair - and wearing an apron to keep the white shirt clean.

"Take a seat! Mokuba and me are handling this perfectly!", the white haired boy greeted him without looking up from his work. Stunned Seto did what he said and soon Mokuba sat next to him as well, while Ryou was serving breakfast. It wasn't something out of ordinary, it were simply scrambled eggs with stripes of ham, but it tasted delicious.

After breakfast the dishes wandered into the dish washer and they went to the limousine to drop of Mokuba at his school and to be at their school in time.

While they were on their way to school Seto thanked Ryou for the food he had left for him at the day before. "Let's say, that's my way of thanking you for your help.", the boy smiled back at him. The CEO acknowledged this and was looking forward to eat his lunchbox, which was also prepared by Ryou.

It was when they reached school, that Seto noticed, that Ryou still wore his hair in the ponytail and he found himself liking it.

The students gave them quiet a stare when they left the limousine of Seto together chatting with each other and Seto actually at the edge of a smile. Even Yugi and the others couldn't help but stare at them.

"What?", the boys asked at the same time, when they noticed the staring of their friends.

"Nothing... Just your sudden getting along with each other was... surprising.", Yugi explained calmly, while Joey eyed the new hairstyle of Ryou, who blinked back at the blond.

Meanwhile the girls were sneaking jealous glances at the albino as well, because Seto suddenly decided to sit next to the silent boy, instead of alone in the last row of the class.

The lessons passed by quickly and it was finally lunch time. Of course Joey had to sit opposite of Kaiba, ready to make fun of his lunch again, because the CEO mostly had something fast like sandwiches. Surprisingly enough today there were a few riceballs together with a small baguette in the little blue box.

"Got a girl cooking for you, Kaiba?", he asked grinning devilishly. Seto's eyes narrowed and Ryou - who was just finishing a small homework - snapped the pencil he had been using.

"No.", Ryou calmly explained. "I made the lunchbox, since I'm living at Seto's now. You've got ANY problem with it?!", he almost growled the last sentence out. He know he looked a bit girlie, but he hated it to get actually called one.

Since he know what had happened the day before, Joey yelped surprised and quickly shook his head. When the albino got angry, he was almost as scary as his Yami had been.

"Stupid dog.", Seto mumbled under his breath and started eating. Ryou, who sat next to him, couldn't suppress the small chuckle that escaped his lips, when he heard that comment.

Immediately Joey glared at the CEO and started growling, which only made the albino chuckle even more and Seto smirk. "Like I said... A dog.", he couldn't help but say.

This of course made Joey launching over the table trying to struggle Seto, but Tristan, Joey and Tea were holding him back, while Yugi just shook his head at the scene. Some things never change.

At the end of the break Ryou excused himself, to go washing his hands and unnoticed by the group, six girls stood up as well and followed the boy out.

When he came back a few minutes later he let his hair shield his face and silently put his things together. Seto wanted to ask if he was alright, but then the doors were pushed open and six girls stormed over to him.

"Do you think you are something better then us, just because Kaiba took pity on you and took you in?! You little slut, why don't you go back fucking that twin of yours?!", one of them screamed at him.

That did it. Even Seto didn't see this coming. With a loud sound Ryou's schoolbag hit the floor, followed by a slap of flesh against flesh. "How dare you...", the boy growled, his hair still hiding his face. "Think about me all you want, but leave HIM out of this!!!", he yelled at the girl he just slapped, then at his hand.

"I never have slapped a girl before.", he mumbled. "And I have never felt so angry before... You better leave before I lose my patience!", he told them and turned around to pick up his bag again.

"You... You SLUT! I will get you back for this!", the girl yelled again and then another slap was heard. This time it had been Seto Kaiba. "Call him that again if you dare!", he growled and glared down at the girl at the same time.

Surprised everyone looked at the CEO, who never before had a) lifted a hand against a girl and b), never defended someone, beside himself or his brother.

Even Ryou blinked at him and forgot his rage, while Seto seemed to shake with anger. Slowly he stood up and put a hand on his shoulder, which made the taller boy whirl around.

"I'm not worth you concern, so calm down!", he softly said, while looking away. "Damn hell you're worth it!", Seto yelled and then tried to calm down, when he noticed the smaller one flinching.

"Sorry, I didn't mean to yell at you.", he mumbled so softly, that only Ryou could hear it and looked up to him again. "That's alright. Thank you, for your concern.", he smiled.

The ringing announced the end of the lunch break and with a last glare at the stunned girls, Seto grabbed his school bag and lunchbox and left the dinner hall together with Ryou, closely followed by their friends which also cast dirty glances at the six.

The rest of school passed by rather uneventful and when it was over Seto and Ryou walked over to the already waiting limousine.

Once inside the continued to chat with each other until it was time to part. Before the white haired boy left the car, so Seto could continue to his work, Seto put a card into his hand. "If there is something of importance or you simply have nothing to do, you can use this card to get into Kaiba Corporation and give me a visit.", the boy explained, before he left the other boy alone.

Once the limousine was away and Ryou was inside, he realised that Seto had forgotten to pack some food for work. "Oh well, once Mokuba is at home we can go over and bring it to him.", he thought and started cooking.

Mokuba, who had longer school at that day, didn't left him waiting too long. About an hour and a half later he entered the house as well.

Ryou explained the situation and with an very enthusiastic Mokuba at his side, they packed the most important things together they would need for three persons and called the limousine to drive them over.

Once they had reached the building, Ryou showed his card to the security guard, since they didn't knew him and then let Mokuba lead him to the elevator and up to Seto's office on the last floor.

When they finally stood in front of the door, Ryou's Millennium Ring glowed up shortly, as if he wanted to warn him, so he stopped Mokuba from knocking and gently tapped into the ring's powers. He could hear two foreign voices debating with Seto so he tapped deeper into it to understand what they were saying.

~ If I were you, I would consider our offer... After all you don't want anything happen to that little family of yours ~

"What do you mean by this?!"

~ Nothing, just that you don't want to pull your little brother and that cute guy into this, do you? ~

"..."

* What my partner tries to say is, that a `friend' of ours is just paying them a small visit and if you don't cooperate with us... Well, let's say, he could get a `little' out of hand... *

"You bastards!!!"

* Ah, ah, ah! What a bad language... And to think somebody like you is leading a company... Well, you have had enough time to think about our offer... Do you accept or not? *

Ryou had heard enough. Quickly he ripped the door open and entered. One of those two guys held a gun and had it pointed at Seto.

Without knowing what he did, he used the powers of the ring again and send the man flying.

"Call the security!", he yelled to Mokuba who had watched the scene surprised. Quickly he nodded to him and ran away.

"Oh my, isn't this you new pet, Kaiba-kun? Looks like you have trained him well.", the one without the gun smiled in a perverted way at him, while Seto had used the opportunity to round his table and now stood before him.

"Leave him out of this!", he growled at the stranger, while the second one picked himself of the floor. "What the...", he started, but was cut of by the other. "Watch your mouth, my dear friend! We don't won't to dirty their innocent souls, do we?"

A small chuckle escaped Ryou, he didn't knew why, but he couldn't help it. "I don't know you, but you obviously doesn't know a little bit about me, so don't talk as if you do!", he told them coolly.

A small moment long both men looked puzzled, then the leader of the two laughed. "I see. You really found yourself a fitting mate, Kaiba-kun."

Both boys blinked. Mate?

But before they had anytime to ask what he meant by THAT comment, Mokuba rushed in, together with the security.

"You two okay?!", he asked concerned, while the security showed the two men where the exit was. "Yes, nothing has happened.", Seto told his little brother and messed his hair up once again. He had made this a habit of his.

"By the way how did you do that with the gun?", the black haired boy asked, looking up to Ryou, who blinked a few times as if coming back from far away.

"Oh, I don't know... I guess, I used the powers of the ring without really meaning to..", he replied.

"Anyway you kind of saved me there. Thank you.", Seto smiled softly at him, while still messing up the hair of his younger brother who started fussing.

"Why did you come over anyway?", he then wondered. "Not that I'm complaining or anything, I just wonder."

"I noticed that you hadn't packed any food for work, so I cooked and waited until Mokuba came home and we agreed, that we wanted to come over and eat together.", Ryou explained with a smile lighting his pale face up.

At the mention of food, his stomach growled and Seto couldn't prevent the blush from appearing on his face.

The other boys chuckled slightly and Mokuba got the bag, which contained everything.

Quickly they had set up everything and were kind of holding a picnic in the middle of Seto Kaiba's office.

The one that was probably most surprised by the whole thing was the secretary, that entered an half hour later and watched the scene with an expression of pure shock.

Ryou had just been feeding Seto a rice ball, because this one wanted to get some work done at the same time, while Mokuba had almost finished his portion.

When he noticed his secretary starring, he glared at her and said: "You are not mentioning this to anyone or you can search yourself a new job!"

Then calmer: "What do you want?"

"J-Just getting the papers for client...", she started, but Seto winked her off. "The second pile from your sight.", he told her and took another bite of the rice ball Ryou still held out for him.

It was when Ryou threw the used serviettes and a few other things into the basket, missed a bit and had to bend down to pick the remaining things of the floor, when Seto noticed the new outfit.

The usually shy boy, wore a sleeveless, skintight, dark red shirt, together with a very tight black trouser and black sneakers. Right now the black fabric that laid tight on the backside of the albino attracted Seto's attention, but he quickly noticed his off-starring and concentrated back on his work.

When the two boys were about to leave Seto stopped them. "That was a nice idea! We should do this more often!", he told them. "And now take care of you, I don't want you to get kidnapped!"

"Don't worry about us!", Mokuba smiled back and Ryou nodded his agreement. "See you later then!", they waved together and left.

Seto smiled after them and then buried himself back into his work.

Strangely enough he got his work finish at time and could leave at 9 o'clock p.m. On his ride home, he thought of a way to repay the two for their efforts and told the chauffeur to stop, when something caught his eye.

"Seto!", Mokuba cheered, when he entered the house. He had been watching a new movie, together with Ryou, and now happily leaped into the arms of his older brother. "You could leave early?", he asked only to make sure.

"Yes, today there wasn't so much work.", Seto answered, while carrying his brother over to the couch, were Ryou greeted him with a soft smile, which he couldn't help but return.

"Seto what's this?", Mokuba asked pointing at the two small bags he carried with him. "That's for someone special.", Seto announced and smiled when Mokuba pouted.

In the next moment he had handed both boys one bag and laughed at their reaction. It wasn't something that special, but he hadn't been able to resist.

Mokuba got a little Blue-Eyes-White-Dragon out of dark chocolate and Ryou one out of white chocolate. "They hadn't a Change of Heart one.", he started, but stopped when Ryou gave him a really grateful smile. "Thank you very much. It's almost to beautiful to eat."

"Yeah.", he could hear himself answering, without meaning the same thing as Ryou did. Then he shook his head. What was wrong with him lately? He kept having strange thoughts about the albino.

Being occupied with his thoughts, he didn't noticed the knowing look that passed Mokuba's face for a few seconds, before it disappeared.

Together they finished watching the movie and had a little pillow fight in Mokuba's room when he refused to go to bed.

A little later Seto left his bed and went down into the kitchen to get a glass of water. To his surprise he found Ryou there. His breath came in short gasps and he was clutching the nightgown over his heart. Noticing what this meant he quickly went over and grabbed a glass of water and took the medicament out of a cabinet, preparing it quickly.

"Here, drink this!", he told the smaller boy and offered him the glass with the medicine. Because of the pain it wasn't easy for the boy to even hold the glass, not to think about drinking.

Noticing the worsen of Ryou's condition he knew that there was only one way out of this. Quickly he put the small amount of liquid into his own mouth and lifted the face of the albino, pressing his lips against the surprised ones under him.

Carefully, as not to startle the other boy he let the liquid drip into his mouth, which he automatically gulped down. Once the transfer was over, Seto found himself not wanting to let go of the soft lips, but did so nevertheless.

"Better?", he asked Ryou, who was still panting and now completely flushed as well. Blushing furiously the boy looked to the side and nodded.

"Thank you.", he then added softly. "No problem. Can't have you passing out on me again, ne?", Seto teased him, which brought a smile back on the other boys face. "Let's go to bed now, okay?"

Ryou nodded and together they went up the stairs and parted then, each one going in their own room.

On the next day neither of them brought the event of the day before up again, although both had thought about it a lot and so days and week passed by peacefully.

Ryou still had his fits about every second day, but it slowly got better.

Finally the day came up, where Yugi celebrated his birthday and of course he had to invite everyone to a party at his house. Unfortunately Mokuba already promised a friend of his to spend the night at his house, so he couldn't come, but else really everyone was there. (Except for Malik, his Yami and Isis... I still don't really know them enough to put them into the story...)

After eating cake and opening presents they settled down in the living room playing a few games until Yami announced that it was time for `Truth or Dare'.

Since Yugi was the birthday child everyone was okay with him starting. "Alright, Joey!", he called out. "Truth or Dare?" "Dare!", the blond called back. Yugi's eyes went blank for a few minutes, signaling that Yami was making suggestions through their mental link.

A chuckle left his lips and he grinned at his dark side. "Thanks, that's a good idea!", he told him then turned back to a sweating Joey. "I dare you to strip down in front of everyone except for your underwear!", Yugi laughed.

Joey's face was priceless and quickly got the colour of a tomato. "What is it?", Yami teased him. "To shy?"

This made Joey jump up. "Of course not!", he yelled, which made everyone grin. "Which song would you prefer?", Tea asked innocently holding the CD's in her hand, but Yugi and Yami interfered at the same time. "Put in `Irresistible'!"

Not being able to watch without blushing, Ryou looked to the side, while Joey stripped down until he was only wearing his boxer. "There! Happy?!", the blond asked while he put back his clothes. "That was a nice show, Joey.", Mai grinned at him, which made the blonde blush slightly again.

"Alright!", he then said and looked into the round. "KAIBA!", he yelled so sudden, that everyone jumped slightly. "Truth or Dare!"

The CEO's blue eyes narrowed. "Dare and don't try anything funny!", he growled at him. "I dare you to sing!", Joey called out without really thinking about it. "Five minutes long!", he added then.

Seto looked ready to kill him, but held back and after a few minutes decided to sing a lullaby he had used to calm down Mokuba when he couldn't fall asleep.

Everyone starred at him in surprise, while it was his turn to pick. Of course he picked Yami and dared him keep his hand of Yugi for the rest of the evening. The newly couple protested, but since Yami NEVER backed down from a dare he sat a few meters away from him to resist the smaller version of himself. After this it continued until it was Tristan's turn. "Ryou! Truth or Dare!" Unlike the others who tended to overlook the guy, he didn't forget about him.

Not trusting Tristan Ryou chose truth. "Aw, come on? What are you afraid of?", Joey teased him, but the albino simply lifted an eyebrow and looked back at Tristan who was thinking this over. Suddenly Tea leaned over to him and whispered something in his ear. A grin spread up over his face and he looked back at Ryou, who didn't liked that expression one bit. "Have you ever been kissed?", the brown haired boy asked.

A blush spread over his face and he nodded shyly. "Who was it?", Tea asked, but Ryou kept silent. "Only one question allowed.", he told her and picked Yugi. Again the round halted at Tea, who wanted to know who had kissed Ryou, but he had foreseen this and picked dare this time.

After thinking for quite a while she smiled evilly. "I dare you to dress up as a girl!", she laughed.

Ryou didn't seemed very amused and glared at her. He was about giving her a retreat of his, when once again a sharp pain struck him. This time it was more intensive then it had been the last few times and he couldn't help, but let out a pained yelp.

Immediately Seto was at his side and yelled at Yami to get him a glass of water, while he pulled the medicament out of his pocket.

Ryou had to bit his lip, when the pain struck him again. He almost didn't catch any air and so it was no wonder that he didn't really notice his surrounding until everything disappeared into darkness...

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Exactly the right point to stop the story *evilgrin*

Anyway how do you like the story so far? The first kiss scene has already happened and we do have another happy shonen-ai couple!!! ^-^

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P.S. If you liked this story you might want to take a look at my other stories too *winks* Ja ne!