Make Me New

Make Me New

Summary:
Disclaimer: I do not own Yu-gi-oh. If I did…*begins to laugh evilly*
Warning: Ryou centric
Author’s Note: Hello all, Schwarzwald here. I’d like to invite you back again into the Kimi ga Iru Universe. Remember alarm clocks? Scented letters? No? ^w^

In the spirit of the title, let’s begin anew. This time though...I think it’ll be a little harder for me to use all song titles as chapter titles.

In the Silence of the Night

Ryou loved school.

It was a a retreat to Ryou. He could spend the whole day with his friends and chase scholarly pursuits, even if they did include “Guess That Cafeteria Food” and “How Many Classes Can Your Yami Skip?” It was a time for packed lunches, loving notes, trying to jump the horse in gym and trying to beat the late bell.

And Ryou looked forward to it each and everyday.

The school year was in full swing already and he was pleased to have both Malik and Yugi in his home room. It didn’t stop the other two from acting up or talking non-stop, but he’d like to think that one day his good influence would make everyone in their group model students.

Of course, then too...Yami and Marik had detention again and for three more weeks...and school had only started two weeks ago.

He laughed into his hand and continued to do his assignment wondering what everyone who wasn’t in detention was doing after school.

****
“Aw fuck this...why do I have to be in here with all the bad kids?”

Marik snickered at Bakura’s statement and continued to carve obscenities in his desk with a pocket knife. “Because we are the bad kids you ass! How long do you think we could keep up that honor student shit?’

Bakura smirked and leaned over, smacking an irritated brunette in the back of the head. “Kaiba, why are you in here with all the bad kids?”

The ice-eyed brunette growled and stared death at his boyfriend. “I’m never hanging out with you during school again!”

“Aw baby! Don’t be that way!”

He and Marik laughed, high-fiving. They’d talked Kaiba into skipping and had unfortunately been caught. But that wasn’t the worst of it. Bakura and Marik had proceeded to “give lip” to the assistant principal while Seto sat there. The woman, who was brand new to the school and didn’t know Kaiba’s affiliation, lumped him in with the two badasses and now, the richest teenager in the world had about a month worth of detention.

The door opened and Jou came in, grinning. “Guess you can’t fuck in the janitor’s closet!”

Varon came in after him, the senior doomed to live out his repeat semester in detention, much like the rest of his school education. “Nah, Oi think the ol’ bloke was just a bit jealous.”

The Aussie looked around. “Looks loike the usual, where’s our prison guard?”

Bakura shrugged, putting his feet up. “You failed Varon?”

“Yeah.” He sat on a desk, putting his feet in the seat. “No big, something about scoience and Oi’m out. You’re all wot, third years?”

Bakura nodded, continuing to push Seto’s shoulder, the boy very unhappy. “We’ve all got month detention. You?”

“Ah...usual. ‘Varon, if you can’t behave we’ll have to suspend you’ ‘Varon, your grades aren’t the best so why do you do this’. Wotevva. My school day’s always been and hour longer anyway.”

“I heard that!” Marik leaned back in his seat. “This mean the Hikari’s hightailed it?”

Bakura looked thoughtful for a moment. “Ah...I think Yugi and Ryou went...to Ryou’s apartment...”

Marik shook his head. “...now I have to figure out a way to get Yugi in trouble so he’ll have detention with me...what’s vadalism running these days?”

Jou counted on his fingers. “Three days out and...two weeks. I think it goes on your record. You might want to set Yugi up with something low level like...cussing out a teacher or...pulling a good prank or -.”

“Fuckin’ in the loo!” Varon interrupted.

They all had a good laugh and Bakura scooted closer to Seto, leaning closer to him and kissing his ear. “Hey, I’m sorry alright?”

“Forget it.”

“You’ll get out of it anyway...how about tonight...” Bakura began whispering in his ear and rubbing Seto’s back.

Nearby, Marik made an imaginary noose and hung himself, Jou and Varon laughing. Bakura just wasn’t Bakura with Seto around and they all knew it.

****

“OW! HE BIT ME!”

Ryou rescued Malik from his now nearly grown cat. He picked up the Russian blue, chiding him softly as he took his away to the room, petting him lovingly. He came back with the first aid kit.

“I’m sorry Malik. You know how Akefia is. He hates strangers.”

Yugi snickered. “I thought you Egyptian’s had that whole cat thing going for you?”

“Shut up Midget!” Malik snapped, holding out his hand. “I hate that cat! He’s psycho!”

“This from Marik’s hikari.” Ryou smiled and cleaned the wound. “You’ll be fine, but really, Akefia doesn’t like people he doesn’t know.”

“I guess he doesn’t bite at Dartz then?” Yugi crammed chips in his mouth and looked down at his text book. “Whuh thuh fuhf ish cowcruwus?”

Ryou narrowed his eyes and looked at Yugi. “What?”

The spike haired boy swallowed, chugging some soda. “What the fuck is Calculus?”

The white haired boy just smiled. “Don’t worry, we’ll do it together.” He put away the kit and followed Malik back over to the living room area, sitting near the coffee table. “For the record, Akefia is very sweet and playful.”

Malik rolled his eyes. “Before or after he tries to eat you? Does he bite Dartz?”

Ryou gave a smile. “It doesn’t matter.” The boy looked down at his work and Yugi and Malik exchanged a glance.

Yugi spoke up. “He must not, Dartz is over here all the time. Hell, you bite Dartz, don’t you Ryou?”

The pale boy blushed and turned the page. “I don’t kiss and tell.”

Yugi wanted to snort. Yeah, because Dartz hasn’t been over in like two months...

Malik rose a brow. “You used to. When’s the last time you told us a tantalizing tale from the vaults of Ryou?”

“Tantalizing?” Ryou laughed, looking into lavender eyes. “No. That’s you. Everytime you talk about Otogi you turn into a romance novelist! Right Yugi?”

The Chibi posed dramatically. “I ran my hands down his porcelain -.”

Malik huffed. “Alabaster.”

They laughed and Malik pointed to Yugi. “Um, you and your bronze sex god stuff?”

“Sun. God. Sun god people.” Yugi flipped some pages. “Can’t we just copy the answers out of the back?”

“We can’t...we’ve got even numbers.”

Malik whined, laying his head down on the coffee table. “Why doesn’t this group have a ‘smart’ one?”

“....I’m the smart one.”

The blond looked at Ryou. “Oh yeah...do my homework Ryou. I’ll...ah...do unnamed sexual favors -.”

Yugi covered his ears. “I’m too young to hear this.”

They shared a laugh again and got down to it.

The sunset and evening came, Yugi and Malik eventually leaving to either go home or bother their respective boyfriends and Ryou was left alone.

He stood in the spacious penthouse apartment and wandered over to the couch, moving Akefia who was already there. He scratched under the cat’s chin.

“You’d never bite Dartz...would you baby?”

“Mraow?”

He kissed the cat on the forehead. “No...never.”

****

Yugi sat with Marik on the couch, sharing some popcorn while they watched tv. They heard someone coming down the stairs and Marik called out.

“Malik! Get us some beers!”

“I’m not your hikari bitch, Bitch. Get your own.” Bakura wandered in, shirtless and scratching his stomach. “What are ya’ll watching?”

Yugi and Marik stared. And Bakura stared back.

“...What?”

Yugi looked around. “What are you doing here?”

Bakura didn’t like that. “I live here you little shit!” He jumped at Yugi who climbed to the other side of Marik for protection.

“Yeah...but Bakura...you ain’t never here anymore. You live at Kaiba’s technically.”

Bakura snorted. “I live here you bastard. ‘Sides, you saw what happened to day. Kaiba’s pissed.” He wandered off and Marik heard the sound of a beer can opening.

“Hey! Get me a beer BITCH!”

“FUCK YOU!”

Yugi ate more popcorn. “I forget what it’s really like here when he isn’t around.”

“Me too. FUCK YOUR MOTHER!” he yelled.

“THANKS BUT I LIKED YOUR SISTER BETTER!”

Marik tossed his head back and laughed, then paused. “WHAT?” He charged out of the living room and Yugi shook his head, changing the channel. He listened to the two Yami’s fighting and was relieved he didn’t have to watch anymore HGTV.

****

Ryou’s stomach churned and made a whining noise as the boy laugh bundled in blankets in front of the plasma wide screen in the living room He shifted in his light sleep for a second, jerking awake when he heard the doorbell.

He shot off of the couch and went for the door, smoothing his hair. He pulled the door open.

“Dartz?!”

It was Bakura. The Yami held up a Chinese take out bag and let himself in.

“No way you could confuse me with that pretty boy.”

“Bakura...what are you doing, Dartz is coming over soon.”

The Yami looked over his shoulder briefly and began to unwrap the food. “Yeah sure.” It was nearly one a.m. and he knew his hikari hadn’t eaten. He could feel it. “Eat this.”

“Well...just a little...” Ryou took his share and they both went to go sit in front of the tv, Akefia wandering between Bakura’s ankles, begging for beef and broccoli.

“Go to hell cat...” He ate and eventually gave it a carrot, which it batted right back in his face.

“I hate your cat Ryou. He’s not coming home with us when you come home.”

“This is my home now. You know that. Besides, Dartz would never come over our place.”

“Ryou...” Bakura stabbed his food a little more, leaning to pick Akefia up and watch his lower body dangle. “Seen Dartz lately?”

“Sure.” the boy lied.

“Oh yeah, when’s the last time you two fucked?”

Ryou turned red. “Shut up Yami! That’s...inappropriate.”

“Hn. You haven’t said that one to me in a while.” He let Akefia go. “When are you gonna stop lying to me?”

“I’m not lying Yami. Dartz comes over. He does. He loves me.”

Bakura watched his hikari in the tv light, watching his eyes. He knew Ryou slept on the couch every night, waiting for Dartz to come visit. Dressed up every day, just in case Dartz came by to take him out.

If he saw Dartz before Ryou did...he was going to fuck him up.

He smoothed the boy’s hair. “Go to bed Bambi. I’ll clean this stuff.”

“Oh yeah?”

Bakura got up. “Yeah. I got cleaning skills now.”

Ryou laughed and got up, taking his blanket back to his bed. The only time he ever seemed to sleep there was when Bakura came over and made him. Which was more and more recently. And Bakura only came to stay over when he and Seto had a fight. Which was more and more recently.

He was settled in and ready to drift off when Bakura came in and set Akefia on the bed. “You forgot your demon cat.”

“Hm.” he smiled at his Yami. “Sleeping over?”

“Yeah, I’ll...crash in the extra room or couch or something.”

“...Yami, you’re allowed to sleep in here with me.”

“Yeah, well...what about Dartz?”

Ryou looked away. “You can move when he comes over.”

Bakura got in the bed, pulling Ryou close to him and kissing his forehead. “Good night.”

“...Seto’s pissed at you isn’t he?”

“Even though he’s already off the hook. Yes he is.”

“...You even said sorry this time.”

Bakura’s voice was quiet. “Yes.”

“It’ll be alright.”

“Same to you....”

“Good night Yami.”

“Nn.”

“I love you too.”

“Shut up and go to sleep.”

Ryou giggled softly but was asleep in no time.

****

“Should we meet for lunch?”

“I don’t think that’s a good idea...look...we can’t keep doing this.”

“Then I’ll tell him. I need to anyway. I mean...it’s really about time anyway.”

“....”

“I think you should tell him too.”

“He won’t be pleased.”

“He never is. Look...I’ll see you tomorrow?”

“Definately. Goodnight.”

“Don’t you mean good morning?”

****
*Are you ready? Things are about to change.
*Schwarzwald says... “It’s like going home again!”