Just Let Me Burn

Chapter 16

When it's all gone, when it's all gone

Bakura and his brother sauntered through the sand of their shared part of the spirit world, of Kul Elna. Akefia grasped his little brothers hand in his and wept, the two stopping in front of the door that led to the ritual room of the millennium items.

Cold wind bit at their skin as they turned and gazed up at the moon, on it perched the pale boy they'd fallen in love with.

Brown eyes watched them sadly and filled up with tears.

"Why did you come here?" Ryou whispered to them.

"Why did you have to die?" Bakura questioned, hi voice dull but his eyes showed deep pain.

"I … had to stop it all," Ryou said, his white hair flowing around his ankles. "It was bond to happen, either this life or another."

"Why not another?" Akefia shouted stepping forward in anger. "Why did it have to be this life?"

"You would say the same thing in the next life, so why not this one? You would have died in this one either way. Why did you choose to come here?"

"Because I love you," Bakura cried.

"Because I love you both," Akefia bowed his head, his hand tightening on Bakuras. "If he loses you, I lose you both."

"I can't be born again," Ryou sobbed, his tears sliding down his cheeks and dripping into the sand far below him. "I can't ever come back and I can't even move from this spot. It's the price I have to pay to have stopped all of the fighting."

He whimpered and rubbed his eyes with the backs of his hands and watched as Bakura grasped onto his brother, the two holding each other.

"Please go back," Ryou pleaded. "Please don't do this."

Bakura growled and glared at Ryou. "No! I won't leave you. You think I could possibly live on without seeing you ever again?"

Ryou hiccuped and shook his head. "I don't think you could, but I hoped you could forget me in the next life."

"Never," Bakura hissed. "I love you."

The three white haired males spent time crying and accepting the fate they'd chosen. The two brothers never losing contact with each other, wanting to be able to touch their most beloved moon spirit. Ryou smiled to them eventually, wiping the tears from his face and sniffing.

"I love you too," He said quietly but enough for them to hear. "I love the both of you. I'm a little glad you stayed, so I won't be all alone for the rest of my life."

The two spirit worlds of the Touzokuous' and Ryous had joined together. The water of the moon spirits washing like small waves against the desert sands.

The small sun spirit had informed them of their death and disappeared with out another word.

The two Egyptian brothers sat curled up against each other. The older embracing the younger in comfort and protection, the smaller exhausted and breathing softly in his sleep.

Akefia craned his head and watched the pale moon spirit as he slept, untouching and untouched on the forever crescent moon and the small damaged star on a string dangling from the top. Ryou sat leaning against the curve of the moon and his hair and long white robe keeping him warm from the bitter cool air of the Egyptian night.

The moon spirit and the darkness spirit and the spirit of disappearing were never reborn or seen again.

In the real world a hare was etched into the moon and the darkness held it high in the black sky amongst the stars until they disappeared into the safety of the spirit world.

The End.

If I had a world of my own everything will be nonsense
nothing will be what it is because everything will be what it isn't

In contrary wise what it is it wouldn't be
and what it wouldn't be it would
you see?

Ahhhhhh~ thank you for reading and sticking with until the end. I had this very sad and beautiful image of the touzokuou brothers curled into each other as Akefia stared longingly at the untouchable Ryou, and so that's what I based this not so happy ending off. I might ever draw it too~

But Yah! Thank you all and I hope you'll maybe follow my other stories that I get to focus on because this is finished :P

Cheers, Noa!