How He Found Out

"I better not hear that you're bothering Ryou again! You got that, fucker?"

The loud pounding of feet slapping the pavement could be heard.

"Let me the fuck go!"

The sounds of a struggle spilled out of the alleyway as the footsteps drew nearer.

A loud crash as something tumbled to the floor almost muffled the sound of flesh on flesh that was further accentuated by a cry of pain.

"I'll let you go when you agree to leave Ryou alone."

"What's going on over here?"

The two beings in the alley froze and whipped their heads over to glare at the intruder.

The intruder, Ryou, was met with an interesting site. Ushio, the largest bully at his school who had recently targeted him, was covered in bruises and being held in a tight grip by…

"Bakura? What are you doing here?"

"Teaching this fool what happens to those that hurt you."

Ryou was a little touched by the fact that Bakura had taken it upon himself to seek vengeance for him.

"But… how did you know it was Ushio who…" he trailed off unsure as to whether or not to finish his sentence. Bakura's angry possessive snarl demonstrated that completion of the sentence would cause Ushio's inevitable demise.

"I have my ways." Bakura snorted at him after a moment of silence.

"Is being incredibly cryptic one of them?" Ryou asked giggling.

"Perhaps, but if it is, it is one of many." Bakura smirked at him.

"What does that even mean?" he snickered in response.

"You know the meaning; you just do not know that you know." Bakura's smirk widened slightly.

"Enough already!" Ryou laughed, "Why don't you let Ushio go and we can go do something."

Like magic, Bakura's good-natured smirk vanished with Ushio's silent demeanor as the giant started to loudly protest the situation.

"Not until this little PUNK," Bakura slammed his fist into Ushio's face to silence him, "agrees to leave you alone."

"But why?" Ryou questioned. "Why do you care so much?"

Bakura looked at Ryou as if he was crazy. Giving Ryou the once over to assure himself that the teen was being serious he rolled his eyes. "Why do you think?" he asked him.

Ryou stared at him blankly, no reasons for Bakura's protective streak springing to mind.

"Because," Bakura sighed, rolling his eyes once more, "I'm your boyfriend."

"Oh." Ryou mumbled, the reasoning making sense in his mind.

Wait, what?"

And then Bakura's reason clicked.

"You're my boyfriend?"

Bakura raised an eyebrow at him. "What do you think?"

Ryou just stared at him in shock. The cute boy from the bus seemed to think he was his boyfriend. Maybe, what he needed to do was analyze their relationship to figure out where the idea stemmed from.

But to do that he'd have to go back to the beginning.

All the way back to the first day of school…

TBC

Now before anyone tries to rip out my innards for starting another story… there is a very good reason for why I did… I'm just not quite sure as to what it is.

More importantly, this whole thing should be up by Valentine's Day! So in 10 days, this will be up and finished and there will be no reason whatsoever to brutally slaughter for me in my sleep.

Well, I hope you enjoyed the story