There was never anyone else

Ryou stared at Bakura in disbelief. This whole time…. This whole time he'd been sticking up for the spirit in the ring… all the hugs and kisses… the affection they'd shared.

"You're not even the thief king?" Ryou asked, more stated at the other male. He watched as the spirit and smiled and shook his head, the dread dawning on him like a death.

"No, Ryou… you are the thief king…" Bakura said with a deep sigh. "I would say you're are just as beautiful as ever..." He smiled softly.

"Don't butter me up… you were using me this whole time!" Ryou shouted angrily. "First you seal all my friends in dolls, possess me and use my body for murder and others pain… and then you pretend to love me! That hurts the most!" Ryou cried out as his deep brown eyes filled with tears, staring at Bakura with pain and hate… a broken heart.

Bakura tried to reach out and touch Ryou only to have his hand bat away. "Ryou please you-"

"No! Don't try to fool me again," Ryou stepped back, wanting to step forwards even with the new knowledge. How could the other stand there and reach out to touch him, trying to pull him close? After those lies and lies… lies piled up over the other… "I thought you wouldn't lie to me... You promised... After I helped make the RPG board because I loved you… I thought it was YOUR family and not my pasts…"

"Would you have loved me had you known the truth?" Bakura asked with a flat serious voice, sorrow in the red eyes. "Really? Would you have still wanted my touch had you known?"

Ryou hiccupped as he rubbed his eyes, unable to answer. Would he? If he'd been told from the start would he still feel the same as he did now? "Why did you… pursue me? Why did you..?"

"So many years ago I took pity on a small boy who'd lost everything, he asked me to help him when I tried to comfort him… if the items where all brought to me I would be released and I thought… just maybe I could forget what I was and be with him… I adored him… I hoped that if I made him happy by helping his revenge that would be enough…" Bakura said softly as he recalled the events. "But… then he died.. I lost him and everything I knew so I wanted to finish it all myself and finish what he started… then I found you..." He smiled and looked at Ryou with loving eyes that seemed impossible for something like him. "By some miracle chance you came, loss of family, white hair and the same air about you… it was like he was back.. you are him…"

"So I am his fill in?" Ryou spat, hurt at the words of the other.

"No… never… it's what drew me in at first… I thought…. But you were a different person, not your souls but who you were. I loved you for you and not him from so long ago, I still feel for him but he's gone," Bakura tried to explain, finding it hard with those accusing brown eyes that were trying not to soften. "Ryou…"

"But… it's over now," Ryou looked down at the floor as his shoulders shook. "You lost and the Pharaoh won… yet again… what happens not?"

"Die with me?"

"W-what?"

"I said die with me," Bakura looked at the boy with serious eyes, his hand tipping the boys head back up to make him look at him. "If there's nothing left and if you still love me… die with me… unless there is someone else you can see yourself loving?"

Ryou whimpered and pulled Bakura in for a deep loving kiss, gripping his shirt tightly. How could Bakura say that? He could always belong to him... no one else... Even if he'd lied, caused so much pain and made him cry almost everyday… he loved him… he'd die with him right here and now and never part with him…

"There was never anyone else… I love you… Zorc..."

(Hi… so a little story I wrote… not sure to cut it here or not because they will die together… but I've have to cancel a few of my stories due to usb explosion and hate… ;; )