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Heccubus	By : jessara40k Category: Yu-Gi-Oh > Yaoi - Male/Male Views: 2728 -:- Recommendations : 0 -:- Currently Reading : 0
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Chapter List
- 1-Heccubus
- 2-2
- 3-3
- 4-4
- 5-5
- 6-6
- 7-7
- 8-8
- 9-note
- 6
- 7
- 8
Disclaimer:
Not mine. If they were Bakura would have won his duels instead of being
defeated by, for example, a God Card. And Yami would have acknowledged that Bakura
had a legitimate grievance�I mean hello, the Pharaoh�s soldiers committed
genocide on his village.

I refused to accept the wordless offer of support that
Bakura was made as we walked to Yugi�s home. I wasn�t that weak, not yet
anyway, and it was just a short walk once we�d got off the train.

�Kurerunano-san.� I didn�t like the formality Mutou-san used
with Bakura, it was so different from the informality he insisted on with the
rest of us - to the point of insisting that we call him Jiisan - and so in
response I made a point of being formal with him myself. He seemed to
have noticed that, but he hadn�t understood my reasons, even if it didn�t
bother Bakura that he was being singled out like that it bothered me. I mean
even Kaiba, the cold businessman who�d build a theme park for the sole
purpose of killing Yugi merited a -kun, but Bakura didn�t? Bakura had
helped Yugi far more than Kaiba had, and he�d had much better reason to
go after the Millennium Items than Kaiba had for his actions - giving rest to
the souls of his people, as opposed to soothing wounded pride. �We�ve got your
Dark Necrophia in stock now. Did you want a box to keep your deck in as well?
Considering the size of your order...�

�No, that won�t be necessary Mutou-san.� Bakura twisted to
pull a ebony box out of his bag - I knew that he�d created it using Shadow
Magic, but that wasn�t apparent, so he�d made it look like as much of an
antique as the gold box Yugi kept his extra cards in. �Just give me the
cards please.� I thought he was being too polite to the old man, but he�d told
me that he saw Mutou-san in the same light he�d seen the less honest merchants
back in Egypt. The ones who weren�t above dealing in slaves they�d captured by
ambushing other merchant caravans on the road. The box was the perfect size for
Bakura to store his cards inside, even with the red velvet lining it he could
fit them into the box in three piles side by side and he quickly sorted them by
type.

�Thank you. Yugi mentioned that you had some new occult type
cards? I think Yadonushi-sama might enjoy looking at them while I go somewhere
private to work out my deck.�

�Come on, I�ll show you where you can work. Do you need some
paper as well, to make notes or something?�

�That might help Yugi. Thank you.� I smiled as I watched the
small teen lead my yami away. His docility since he�d regained his own body
still had the power to surprise me, but I pushed that thought away, since I had
to make sure Mutou-san didn�t realise Yugi was still with him.

�By the way Atemu, when are you going to let Bakura cleanse
the evil from the rest of the Millennium Items? So far he�s been able to do
three, Shadi has two, and he�ll only answer to you, and you keep the last two,
even if you never touch them.� I wouldn�t have said anything, except I could
sense my yami�s constant low-level pain at the knowledge that some of the souls
of his people were still suffering, and there was nothing I�d allow him to do.

�What are you talking about Bakura-kun?� I stiffened at the
way the old man addressed me and the astonishment in his voice.

�If you are going to be formal with my yami then I expect
you to be equally formal with me. Are we clear on that Mutou-san?� I didn�t
know why his unthinking insult to Yami had set me off, and made me angry enough
to actually do something, but it had and I wasn�t going to back down.

�Very clear Bakura-san. But you haven�t answered my
question.�

�The Millennium Items were created by genocide of course,
how could they be anything but evil? Bakura found a way to remove the evil from
them, that�s why he was trying to collect them all, and I agree with his
assessment that any price was worth it to set his people�s souls at rest. Oh,
you didn�t want to acknowledge that you handed an ancient evil over to your
grandson, giving it power over him, did you Mutou-san?�

�And who told you all of this? Do you really think that tomb
robber is a reliable witness?�

�He�s already proven that by the age of seven he knew more
about Shadow Magic than your precious Atemu ever learned. And he can�t lie to
me, our link prevents that.�

�That much is true Jiisan. I cannot lie to Yugi, any more
than he can lie to me, and if my link with him works as Ryou�s link with Bakura
does then nor can Bakura lie to Ryou.� So he could think after all. Not
that I was going to say that aloud, not since he was actually supporting me,
and indirectly supporting Bakura. On the other hand...

�You haven�t answered my question Atemu.�

�What? Can you promise me that he won�t try to steal the
Millennium Items if I let him try that spell on them?� I wasn�t going to
interrupt him to check, but he�d said that he only wanted to free the souls of
his people, and that in Egypt he�d thought the only option was to
destroy the Millennium Items or he�d have found a way to cleanse them without going
to the bother of actually stealing them.

�Yes, I can. He only ever wanted to get his hands on them
for long enough to cast that spell, at least since he learned it.�

�What about Pegasus? You never said how he got the Eye from
him? Didn�t he kill for it?� I shouldn�t have been surprised by Jounouchi�s
attitude.

�Are any of you going to claim that the bastard deserved the
Eye? And Bakura didn�t kill him, he just challenged him for the Eye, and
Pegasus lost.�

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I�d known that Yadonushi-sama would be powerful if he ever
stopped denying what he was, but I hadn�t expected him to defend me as if I
belonged to him, not yet anyway. Or to argue to get me what I needed to grant
my people, the people I would always feel that I�d failed, rest. But as I
learned later he had, and it even seemed to have helped his condition a
little, not much, but he wasn�t looking as tired as I�d come to expect him to
be by this time of day when I came back from pleasing Yugi.

Atemu immediately left the room, and I joined Ryou in
looking through the new occult cards, asking if there were any he�d recommend
to me, because I knew I couldn�t leave at once, that would have been
suspicious. And Ryou did turn out to have some pretty good ideas about what
cards I might like, even if they weren�t entirely what I might have chosen
without his influence. He wasn�t aware of the strategies I favoured, not
really, even though he�d seen me use them from inside my head, they were too
manipulative to come naturally to him. But I thought I could build a new
secondary strategy around the cards he suggested, cards that made good �champions�
or good support for champions, so it wasn�t a loss.

�Here.� I couldn�t think of anything to say when he thrust
the Millennium Necklace and Millennium Rod at me, so I just raised an eyebrow. �I
can�t sense any difference in the Puzzle from that spell you cast, and Ryou
convinced me that it�s important to you, even if there isn�t any real effect,
so you can cast the same spell on these, as long as you do it now.�

�You really can�t sense the difference?� I�d always thought
the difference would be obvious since I�d learned how to cleanse the evil from
those things, Ryou could sense it even though he was still pretending to be
just human as hard as he possibly could, but apparently only demons sensed the
pure evil surrounding those cursed things. Humans must not be sensitive enough
or something like that, and I dismissed the issue, rather than ponder that
particular wrinkle.

�There isn�t a difference, not to anyone but you or
Ryou. But I saw you cast those two spells on the Puzzle, and you didn�t
do any harm.� I didn�t like his dismissal of our perceptions, but it didn�t
really matter as long as I got the chance to set my people to rest. I put the
Necklace to one side as I cradled the Rod in my hands, focusing my mind and
heart on my need to free the souls of my people to move on, whether to
reincarnation, or to whatever afterlife would accept them, and channelled the
purest Shadow Magic I could, freeing their souls. If it hadn�t been right after
I�d been with Yugi I don�t think that I could have cast the spell again
on the Millennium Rod, and afterwards I felt light headed, almost as if I would
faint, and I recognised the warning signs from Egypt. At least I wouldn�t annoy
Yadonushi-sama again by offering to help him back to his house, I was too
exhausted to risk making the offer, in fact I wished there was someone who
could help me get home.

I sighed and tapped into the Shadow Realm, drawing energy
from it, even knowing that doing so was a temporary expedient at best. I couldn�t
get as much energy from the Shadow Realm as I�d just used to free my people�s
souls, and my body didn�t respond to or retain that energy as well as it did
the energy I got sexually. Atemu looked shocked by my actions, without any
reason, and he called his own Shadow magic defensively.

�Relax, I just used up a bit too much energy doing that. Now
at least there�s only two Items I need to cleanse. Yadonushi-sama, I think we
should leave soon, it takes a while to prepare a meal after all, and we don�t
have anyone at home to cook for us.� I turned to the old man, and paid for my
new cards, as well as the ones Ryou had chosen while he picked up his bag and
we left.

�Do we really need to get home now? I�m not that hungry, and
we can always order something in, can�t we?� At least he hadn�t protested
before we left, although it did surprise me that he didn�t just want to
get home so he could go to sleep or something.

�There�s that, but I want to get home while w-you still have
the energy to do your homework.� He didn�t catch my slip, or at least it didn�t
seem that he had and I was grateful for that, my purpose was to take care of
him after all. We took far longer than I would have liked to get home, and I
couldn�t blame that on Ryou, because if I hadn�t been so exhausted I�d
have been able to offer to carry his bag, or force a faster pace. And then
there was the problem of a pair of thugs we almost ran into. I knew that I wasn�t
up to protecting Ryou, and that he wouldn�t realise that he could
protect me, so I made sure we hid before they saw us, and that cost us more
time.

Once we got back I set up a simple stew, something I could
just leave to simmer while I did my own homework, and asked Ryou to do his own
while I did mine, even knowing that he�d take longer. Except he didn�t, because
I was helping him when he had problems, the way I was used to doing. While we
were eating I frantically tried to figure out a way to recover my energy, but I
knew I was pushing the limits of what I could safely take from my �friends�,
and so there was only one real option.

Ryou didn�t question it when I left the house, and went
hunting, looking for a paedophile, focusing my magic to draw one to me in my
child�s form, since paedophiles and rapists were the only people I was
comfortable killing that way.

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Bakura�d prepared a somewhat more Western breakfast when I
came down from bed, bacon, egg-fried toast, and a huge fried mushroom were laid
out for me, and he was kneeling beside the table.

�Bakura, what?� I couldn�t believe the way he was behaving,
and I didn�t understand why he was doing that.

�Yadonushi-sama, will you make a promise to me?� He
hesitated then added a single word before pressing his head to the floor. �Please.�

�Get up Bakura!� My voice was harsh with shock, and my yami
rose to his knees immediately, then set his jaw and stayed like that.

�Sit down and start eating, I�m staying here until you�ve
made that promise and given me some sign you�ll abide by it.� He was trembling
faintly, and I could feel his fear through our link, and that was enough to
make me do as he asked. I took a bite of the bacon before saying anything to
him, because I had the feeling that would make him feel better, even though I
wasn�t very interested in eating at the moment.

�What do you want me to promise?�

�That you�ll eat what I prepare for you. It won�t be
enough to make you throw up or anything, but please, you�re starting to lose
weight, and at least if you eat l-normally, or close to normally, your
condition won�t deteriorate quite so fast.�

�I...� That wasn�t a promise I could make, and I didn�t know
how to say that to him, not when he sounded so desperate for me to
agree. �I can promise to try, nothing more. Will that be enough?�

�It will have to be, won�t it?� Bakura stood, head bowed
slightly, a slight bitterness in his voice. I felt guilty for putting that
there, but at least he was standing, and it was only then that I realised there
were no dirty dishes, just the dirty pans he�d used.

�What about you? Have you eaten anything today?� He looked
shocked that I�d asked. Had I given him reason to believe I didn�t care about
him or something?

�No, I forgot. There�s a good reason, and it�s why I�m going
to ask everyone if they can deal with taking a week long break from the schedule,
to let them recover a bit, but eating helps reduce my need to feed.� I didn�t
want to know what that �good reason� was, I really didn�t, but I�d seen how
much everyone was obsessed with bedding Yami.

�Do you think the others will like that idea? I mean they
all want you so much...� Bakura was breaking two eggs into a bowl and beating
them with salt and pepper as I spoke and he moved on to filling the frying pan
as he replied.

�I know, but...you know that I�m feeding on them, draining
their energy every time I satisfy them sexually. My kind kill humans if
we feed that way too often for too long, and it�s a slow lingering death.�

�I thought that you had enough lovers that you didn�t need
to worry about that so much.� Not that he�d ever explicitly discussed how he
fed with me, but I was pretty sure that he would have said something if he had
reason to worry about our friends before now. Bakura glanced over at me before
he responded, then he frowned when he realised I wasn�t eating. I hurriedly cut
another bite of the egg-fried toast and began to chew it before he could say
anything about my breaking my promise already. That seemed to be enough to let
him relax a bit as he slid the first slices of toast done out of the frying pan
and onto his plate, adding some more slices to the pan.

�I�m not entirely certain about that. I think I can
manage without hurting them, at least while they�re all so young, but...this
was never covered in my education, it was assumed that I�d end up belonging to
a demon powerful enough not to worry about that, and there isn�t any useful
information in the Ring either. Most heccubi either belong to a powerful demon,
or feed on lots of humans and often kill them anyway. I don�t think there�s any
records of what I�m trying to do.� He looked just a little lost as he explained
that, then he cut a bite of his toast, chewing on that as he continued working
on his meal. I shouldn�t have been surprised that he cared more about humans
than most of his kind did, he�d put himself through hell to free the souls of
his kin, even if they had been human, and he�d never been as uncaring about
human life as Atemu had, even if the Pharaoh didn�t want to acknowledge that.

�I�m sure you�ll be able to cope, and you�ll know if
you�re hurting them. Have you seen any signs of that?�

�No, I haven�t.� He sounded a lot more cheerful when he
realised that, and I was glad to have made him feel better about doing what he
had to so he could survive. He finished putting his food onto his plate, a bit
larger than my own I realised and far more crowded, and came to sit opposite
me, eating swiftly, but still neatly, something vaguely sensual about his
actions. �You aren�t eating Yadonushi-sama.� His voice was quiet, no accusation
in it, just a little disappointment, but there didn�t need to be, his
disappointment cut more and I began eating again, taking a few bites before I
said anything else.

�What about those tricks you said could be used to draw
power from the Shadow Realm?� He�d mentioned that as an alternate source of
power after all.

�They were great for providing me with power when I was
still a spirit, and I thought they�d work as well now, but they don�t. I can�t
retain that power for very long, although it works fine for me to draw on it
and then use it all in healing someone instead of using my own power. But...I
might be able to teach some of our friends how to use that trick, so they can
draw power before...� His voice fell away as he mused on his new idea, and I
felt confident enough to press on one matter.

�Then you won�t tell the others that they have to give you
up for a week?�

�If you say I shouldn�t.� He looked a little resigned, then
he smiled as he looked at my plate. �I knew you could finish what I�d given
you. Do you want some more?� I just shook my head, and he looked upset again. �Will
you try to get in some sort of argument some time today? I think it might help
you a little.�

�I�ll try.� If that was the price for him not refusing my
friends...

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I made a point of leaving Ryou to talk with his friends by
himself during the lunch break, since I was sure he�d eat the sushi I�d
prepared for him this time at least, especially since I�d given the bento to
him in front of his friends. He seemed to understand that I was feeling sort of
crowded by him and his friends, since he�d persuaded me I wasn�t harming
them by bedding them so often. Of course that wasn�t the only reason I wanted
to be away from them, I also wanted to establish enough of a reputation as a
fighter that I�d be left alone mostly, and I wouldn�t be able to do that
hanging around him, since most people left them alone now. Besides, even if
Ryou didn�t notice, I was well aware that I was just barely tolerated, and more
because of what a great lay I was than any other reason, the others didn�t
really care about me the way they cared about each other, and they even tended
to exclude Ryou a little.

�Eating all alone pretty one?� Not very original, I scowled
up at the teen, he wasn�t even one of the more dangerous or well-known bullies,
but dealing with him would do for a first step.

�Yes, I wish it so. Now leave.� I didn�t really expect him
to, so it was no surprise when he insisted on sitting beside me, putting his
arm around my waist.

�I�m sure you don�t really want to be left all alone.
You�re so gorgeous.� I set my bento aside and tried to move his arm
without hurting him, but when that didn�t work I went for a nerve cluster at
the inside of his elbow. He screamed and pulled away from me, and I smiled at
him cruelly.

�I said I wasn�t interested in company, now I will give you
one last chance to leave.� He was weak enough that he didn�t question that,
just nodded, and ran away from me, leaving me to get one with my meal. At least
the next idiot who came after me would be stronger, and dealing with him would
give me more of a reputation.

But that wouldn�t happen just yet I thought which left me
with the problem of what to do now. It was easy when I was with Ryou of course,
all I had to do then was give him my company and do whatever else he wanted or
needed of me, but now I didn�t have anything with me to entertain myself, and
the idea of going back to the classroom to work on my homework early or on
figuring out classical Japanese wasn�t appealing for some reason. But when I
thought about it I realised that even though doing my homework now would free
me up to help Ryou more it would also make him more reluctant to do his, I had
a feeling that it was only because I�d been doing mine at the same time that I�d
succeeded in having him do his homework yesterday. I hadn�t had any real
practice with my knife for far too long though, and the way I felt at the
moment I could easily afford to waste energy on a spell to find someone to spar
with.

I went with my impulse, setting the parameters of my Shadow
Magic searching spell as narrowly as I could, someone who could face me with a
knife without putting me or any other in danger, someone who would do
so, without asking any price I would be unwilling to pay, and someone inside
the school grounds. If no one fitted those criteria...and no one did, so the
spell just dissipated instead of guiding me to the one who satisfied my
requirements. I shrugged mentally and pulled out the cards I�d selected to make
up my deck for now, pulling it from its thinly carved �ivory� box and
unwrapping the cards from the virgin silk I used to shield them from magic of
any sort. I needed to attune the cards to my magic, Shadow and Heccubus alike,
and this would be the best time to do so, while it was still strong, and the
Heccubus aspect freshly fed so I could devote more energy to calling Shadow
Magic. I�d connected my deck to the rest of my cards when I selected it as
well, using a spell I�d worked out a few weeks ago, so all my cards would
become more attuned to my magic as my deck became more so. Just holding
my deck, and letting my magic flow around it, letting it bathe in my aura
strongly enough to cut it off from all other influences was helping to attune
it, but there was more I could do, and so I made my way into the school
building, looking for the classroom dedicated to duelling during students� free
time.

I didn�t bother to approach any of the students already
there for a duel, if they wished to duel me they could easily do so simply by
asking, and duelling would not do so much to attune my cards to my magic as
other options would. I shut my eyes and began shuffling my deck, then laid it out
across the table in an almost random pattern, determined by what felt best to
my magic at the time. When I opened my eyes I saw they were all face down, and
began turning them over one by one, again as my magic guided me, focusing the
while on the thought of the future with no end in sight. I couldn�t interpret
everything, or even most of it, but I could see there were spots where the
pattern faltered because I hadn�t possessed the right card or just not had enough
cards in my deck for this, and there were some indications that I�d succeed in
my aim to free the souls of my people bound to the final two Millennium Items
and that I�d belong to a powerful, but strange, demon eventually.

�Do you want to duel with me?� It was just a kid, but it
would be suspicious to refuse, so I agreed and duelled first him, then others
until we had to get back to class.

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