Returning For You

A/N: This is another one-shot! God, I am on a roll today! Please enjoy this one to the best of your ability, guys! It's kinda sappy, but I think it's actually really good, so here we go xD

[Domino Beach 7:30 PM October 31st, 2009]

Ryo Bakura sat on the beach, right near the waves. It was low tide, so he had no fears of the current rushing over him and dragging him off into the cool waters.

It was cold out, so Ryo had put on a pair of grey jeans, black and white Nike sneakers, and a longsleeve black shirt. He had put his white coat over it, the one with fuzz down the zipper area.

Ryo smiled softly as he clenched the coat closer to his body, trying to keep the cold out.

It was times like this where Ryo wished that he had gained his grandpa's ability to withstand the cold.

Being the shadow creature of immense power that he was, Loki Bakura, Ryo's grandpa on his dad's side, was able to withstand any type of cold, though he sometimes wore a long coat as to not startle anyone.

Ryo knew of his grandpa's great powers because during winter one year.

It had been when Loki and Ryo had been running away from a shadow hunter while searching for Bakura, Loki was dressed in nothing more than the very same black shirt Ryo was wearing, shorts, a flimsy red jacket, as well as a pair of red boots for running through slush.

Ryo chuckled and watched as the waves came up, brushing the white sand and turning it slightly darker.

"I love the ocean. I really can see what Grandpa loves by living right near one. I wonder if Uncle Thor lives near one," he murmured aloud, thinking back to his great uncle.

Ryo's eyes scanned the teal waves as the sun started setting, making the sky dark.

Stars littered the dark navy scenery, and Ryo's eyes glittered as he watched the constellations take form. He sighed softly, resting his chin on his jean-clad knees.

"Hikari?"

Ryo blinked and glanced over his shoulder.

He spotted his yami, his darkness and former other self, Bakura Touzoku, slowly making his way across the sand towards him. Ryo chuckled to himself as he saw Bakura stumbling over the sand.

Though he had grown up in Egypt, Bakura always complained that Japanese sand was a lot lighter, and that he sunk a lot easier than he did in Egypt.

Though Ryo thought it was because he hadn't been on sand in nearly 5000 years.

"Hey, 'Kura," Ryo said. He scotted over a bit. "Here, you can sit next to me if you want," he told his darkness.

Bakura muttered a thanks and took a seat next to Ryo, sitting on the long part of his black trench-coat, since he said he didn't want to get sand all over his jeans again.

Ryo noticed that Bakura was dressed in the exact same clothes that he had been when they were in Battle City, despite the black trenchcoat, which Bakura had magically aquired before fighting Seto Kaiba.

His hair was still as wild as ever, though it had grown slightly longer, and his eyes were still cold and harsh, but this time, he seemed to be thinking something through.

Ryo sighed and looked out to the waves yet again when Bakura said nothing for a good few moments.

'He usually never follows me out here unless he wants to talk about something, but he hasn't said anything to me in a few minutes,' he thought, fiddling with a part on his coat.

"Hey, Hikari," Bakura said suddenly.

Ryo's back stiffened. "Y-yes?" he asked.

Bakura chuckled a bit. "Idiot, what are you getting all stiff for, huh? It's not anything bad," he explained.

Ryo sighed and calmed down, closing his eyes. He waited for a moment, but he couldn't hear Bakura speak. He was about to ask what was up, but Bakura cleared his throat and continued.

"You know that I came from Egypt thousands of years ago, right?" Bakura asked.

Ryo blinked innocently. "Yeah, I know that, 'Kura," he said.

"And you know that I came from a village called Kul Elna, the village known as the "Village of Thieves", correct?" Bakura asked, looking over at his look-alike hikari.

Ryo nodded slowly.

"Yes, Bakura, I know all of this. But what does it matter?" he asked.

Bakura closed his eyes and looked at the ocean.

'I can't keep doing this. I know that my home now is here with Ryo, but there are so many things that I have to know about why Zorc chose me, why my village, and so much else,' he thought.

Bakura glanced over and spotted Ryo staring at him.

'And then there's Ryo. What do I do if Zorc decides to go after him? I'm just a hazard to him if I stay here,' he thought, sighing sadly.

Ryo waved a hand in Bakura's face. "'Kura? Are you okay? You started spacing out again," the hikari said. Bakura nodded and looked over at his hikari, seriousness on his face.

"I think I'm going to return to Kul Elna," he said.

Ryo stared in silence before smiling at him. "That's great! Visiting where you were born might help you remember some stuff and find out any questions you have," he said.

Bakura nodded slowly and closed his eyes.

"And... I think I'm going to stay there for a while, and I might possibly not come back," he said quietly.

Ryo sat in total silence, his expression unreadable. Bakura could see sorrow, anger, pain, fear, and everything else negative in his hikari's eyes, but he couldn't tell which one Ryo felt more of.

Ryo forced a smile to his yami.

"R-really?" he asked. "T-that's great. Y-you haven't been there in y-years, millenias actually, s-so this ought to be good for you, r-right?" Ryo's voice was quivering, and he let his bangs cover his eyes.

Though he was trying to sound happy, inside, he was in hysterics.

'He wouldn't! He's lying! H-how could he just... How could he just decide something like this so suddenly?' Ryo cried in his mind.

Bakura sighed and folded his arms over his knees. "You see, you said my home is here. But my real home is in Kul Elna, and I have to stay there to find out some questiond that will haunt me if I don't," he explained.

Ryo nodded slowly, feeling a few tears fall and land on his hands, which he had folded over his knees.

Bakura slowly reached over and placed his hand on Ryo's shoulder. He brought Ryo closer to him, his eyes filled with a longing look. Ryo stared and couldn't speak.

Bakura smiled at him, and for once, it wasn't a malicious smile. It was one of peace and of a sense of happiness that Ryo never knew the blood and gore-obsessed yami possessed in his body.

Bakura carefully lifted Ryo's chin so that he could see the tears that fell from the hikari's eyes. He brought his hand up and cupped Ryo's cheek with it, brushing some of the hikari's tears away with his thumb.

"I love you, Ryo," he said carefully.

Ryo stared at his yami with wide eyes. He looked into his yami's eyes, searching for any signs that he was lying to him as a cruel joke. He didn't see any sense of being betrayed. Bakura was telling the truth.

"'K-Kura...?" he asked softly.

There wasn't a moment where they spoke, and almost instantly, both of them flew forward and locked lips with one another. Ryo laid back with Bakura on top of him, their lips still connected in a passionate kiss.

Their hands intertwined, and their eyes slid closed, allowing Ryo's tears to fall as they kissed. All their hidden emotions and love for one another was emptied in that one kiss, which lasted for what felt like hours.

''Kura... Don't you see how much I love you, 'Kura? Your family is here with me, don't you get that?' Ryo thought.

He didn't say it through the mind-link, for fear that it would make Bakura feel guilty. Ryo desperately wanted him to stay, but another half of him said that if it was what Bakura wanted, then he was okay with it.

''Kura, how could you even think of just abandoning me like this?' Ryo wondered. 'No! Bakura, you can't just leave like this!'

Bakura pulled back from the kiss, and both he and Ryo opened their eyes. Bakura sat back on the sand as Ryo sat up. He turned to face Ryo and smiled softly.

He had no idea what to say. He couldn't just say "Farewell" and leave, or else Ryo might think that he was taking advantage of him. He couldn't tell him good-bye, because it would be too painful for the both of them.

Bakura gulped and smiled at his hikari.

"See you," he said quietly.

Ryo was silent, his bangs covering his eyes. After a few minutes, he glanced up, the tears gone. He had a small smile on his lips, and he nodded to his yami.

"Sure," he said with a kind, honest smile.

Bakura slowly got up and walked off the beach, careful not to stumble. He had already packed up everything that he needed, and he was going to get a ride to Egypt from Kaiba.

Kaiba had employed Bakura a while ago as an alarm tester and a trainer for the new guards, and because he was on good terms with them (mostly because Jonouchi had begged Kaiba, and Kaiba bent to whatever Jonouchi wanted), Kaiba even paid off all of their bills for them.

Once he was off the beach, Ryo allowed himself to curl up and start sobbing hysterically into his hands.

"I love you too, 'Kura," Ryou whispered through his tears.

TENDERSHIPPING 4 EVER

[The Modern Village of Kul Elna, Egypt November 12th 2009]

Bakura was fast asleep in the hotel room that he had rented. He had been in Egypt for a little more than a week, and Kaiba had given him enough money to last there for a while.

He had even given Bakura a passport, and told him that he would keep sending him money if he needed it, and that if he needed to come back, then the passport would help him.

Deep within his sleep, Bakura was haunted by a nightmare, one that he had feared he would get a long time ago, but it hadn't bothered him when he thought it would come.

But tonight, it had decided to come and plague his mind.

And this time, it wasn't fully a dream.

{'Kura's Nightmare/Mental Reality}

Bakura found himself trapped in the darkness, and as he glanced around, he spotted Ryo running up to him.

The yami gasped and caught the little hikari in an embrace. "Ryo!" he whispered. Ryo smiled and laced his arms around his yami, whispering about how much he had missed him.

Bakura glanced down at Ryo.

"Ryo, ever since what happened in Kul Elna 5000 years ago, I've been horrified of coming back here," he explained. Ryo nodded carefully and listened intently.

"But, in coming back here, I finally have had good memories of stuff that happened. I finally remember the good things about my home," Bakura said with a smile to his hikari.

Ryo nodded slowly.

"I see..." he said. He looked up and locked eyes with his yami. "Then... what about me back in Domino, 'Kura?" Ryo asked.

Almost as soon as he whispered the words, he became transparent and disappeared from Bakura's arms. Bakura gasped and glanced around the darkness, unable to see his hikari.

"Hikari?!" he shouted.

"When I was with 'Kura... he was the most important person to me. So, why did he abandon me like this?" Ryo's voice sounded from every area of the darkness.

Bakura glanced up and gasped as he saw two smaller versions of Zorc Necrophades holding his hikari hostage. Ryo had tears streaming down his cheeks, and his clothes were torn badly.

"'Kura wasn't there to protect me, and so I..." Ryo's voice trailed off.

"Yadonushi!!" Bakura hollered. Almost immediatly, Bakura felt a dark presence behind him. He glanced over his shoulder and gasped as he saw Zorc standing right behind him.

"You!" he snapped angrily.

Zorc chuckled darkly. "Does it make you angry, Touzoku Bakura?" he asked softly. "If so, then why did you run away to Kul Elna and leave him behind in Domino Japan?"

Bakura growled as Zorc took Ryo from his two minions and carefully ran his hand (claw?) through Ryo's silver hair. Zorc was the same size as a human in this form, and kept a firm grip on Ryo.

"If you hold him so close and so protectively, then why weren't you there to protect him?" he asked.

Bakura growled and felt his shadow magic growing, but there was nothing he could do. He was up against the master of Shadow Magic, and he was totally helpless against him.

He had failed.

He couldn't protect his beloved Ryo...

He yelled angrily, and his shadow magic seemed to swell up and attack the Lord of Darkness, and Zorc let go of Ryo's soul. Ryo then vanished from sight, probably heading back to his own body.

But Bakura didn't see, and still believed he has failed.

{End of 'Kura's Nightmare}

"No!" Bakura cried, snapping awake. He glanced around and shuddered as he thought back to the nightmare that had haunted his mind, and he closed his eyes tightly and shook.

"W-what a nightmare... But was it real?" he said.

He glanced over at the passport on his nightstand, narrowed his eyes, and grabbed onto it.

[Domino City, Japan December 26st, 2009]

[Ryo's POV]

The sun was setting in the city of Domino, and the sound of waves rolled through my ears.

I was standing ankle deep in water, in the ocean to be exact, and I was staring at a figure who was standing on the beaches before me, locking eyes with me for what felt like an eternity.

Bakura.

He was dressed in his black trench coat (which, I might add, he never seemed to leave home without when he was going to go hurt someone or cause issues to the public), a striped blue and white shirt, and a pair of grey jeans.

He was staring at me as if I were a ghost, and I couldn't read the expression in his eyes.

He looked happy, relieved, worried, concerned, and a bunch of other emotions all at the same time. He was just staring at me in disbelief, and I thought I saw tears in his eyes.

I smiled at him.

"Hey, 'Kura..." I said, taking one single step toward him.

"Ryo..." he breathed, and I almost couldn't hear him say my name. He dropped the bloodied knife that he had clutched in his hand, and he went running into the ocean, not caring it it got his clothes wet.

He stopped about a foot before me, and just stared down at me, our eyes locking together.

We threw ourselves at one another, wrapping our arms around each other as if we had not seen each other in so long. Bakura laced his hand through my hair and just held me for what felt like an eternity.

I drew back from Bakura, as he did from me, though our arms were still holding one another close.

Bakura smiled at me for the first time in a long while, since he had been gone the whole time.

He said it had to do with "finding himself" and "finding who he truly was inside his heart", and in the time he was gone, I had been kidnapped by beings of the darkness in a dream.

But Bakura had saved me from Zorc, even though I hadn't seen him when he did it, I had come back and woken up here, at the beach, where Bakura and I had first confessed that we loved one another.

Bakura and I leaned forward, about to kiss, and then we stopped.

We looked at each other for a long time, and then we leaned forward, both closing our eyes, and our lips pressed firmly together, in the most passionate kiss I think we had ever done since we had fallen in love.

We held one another for such a long time, our lips pressed together, our arms laced around each other, and we stayed like that until the sun started setting, the sky turning dark, the moon rising.

TENDERSHIPPING 4 EVER

[Normal POV]

Ryo Bakura slowly opened his eyes and glanced over. He was laying on his couch, and his shirt was half un-buttoned, and he found his jeans had been unzipped as well.

He glanced over and smiled softly.

Bakura was laying next to him, asleep as well. His shirt was unbuttoned as well, but his jeans weren't unzipped as Ryo's had been. Ryo smiled softly and leaned against Bakura.

'This feels like a dream, but it isn't...' he thought,

Ryo looked up and slowly brought his lips to Bakura's cheek.

'Bakura came back from Kul Elna just to be with me again,' he thought, happiness flooding his mind.

Almost as soon as his lips touched his boyfriend's cheek, Bakura's eyes snapped open. He smirked at Ryo, grabed his wrist, and quickly flipped them over so that Ryo was under him.

"Yaa!" Ryo cried as he was flipped, glancing up and seeing Bakura's face merely inches from his own.

Bakura smirked at his boyfriend and locked their hands together, his other hand still holding Ryo's wrist firmly. Bakura chuckled and glanced down at Ryo, whose shirt was wide open, revealing his chest and stomach.

"So, you've resorted to taking advantage of me in my sleep?" he asked with a laugh. Bakura grinned at Ryo like a malicious, evil predator would look at its prey.

"You've become nicely perverted, Hi-ka-ri," he sang.

Ryo blushed violently and struggled underneath his boyfriend. "Y-you perverted lech! Let me go, will ya!?" he squeaked, squirming to try and escape from his yami.

Bakura stared at Ryo for a moment, a serious look on his face. "There's no way I am ever going to let you go again," he told him, leaning down and pressing his lips against Ryo's firmly, yet passionately.

Ryo closed his eyes and allowed the kiss, locking hands with his boyfriend.

''Kura, I'm really glad you came back...' the little hikari thought.

Both yami and hikari knew that there was no place that they would rather be...