the_campus | No. No! You KNOW who's in there!

[Ryou looks worriedly at the door at first, but soon enough turns back to his Aniki and offers him an awkward smile. He doesn't feel right speaking just yet, with Lisa-san panicking...so he just waits.

But once the faucet stops and everything goes quiet, he stares at the door again. As time passes, something stirs in his chest... An uncomfortable sort of fear.

His voice is hushed.] Aniki...is she ok?

I... I don't know...

[Is it really right to bother a girl in the bathroom? She might have just decided to use the facilities, or put makeup on... or...

Or faint on the ground.

He rapped on the door smartly with the back of his knuckles.]

Lisa-san? Are you alright?

[She doesn't respond. When Bakura knocks on the door, it swings open readily.

It looks like there was a massacre in there. Bloody hand prints decorate the walls, floor and faucet. But there's no sign of Lisa. Instead, there's a diary on the floor, but it's just as blood-splattered as the rest of the bathroom, the pages glued shut.]

[Ryou jolted back, letting out a horrified shriek before slipping into a soft, shaking whimper. He raised his hands to his face, trembling terribly and looking deathly pale.]

W-w-wh... [Oh god, where did all that blood even come from?! If anybody lost that much blood, they'd be dead...wouldn't they? But Lisa-san had seemed fine a moment ago! Besides the nosebleed...and the shock...but she was okay, right?

Maybe...she just got her period and made a run for it. ...Yeah. That's it.]

[It was a testament to how far his mind had twisted that his first thought was "Oh no, more cleaning...". That thought quickly faded as he stepped inside. So much red. Was this... blood?

The spirit within the Ring separated briefly, hovering nearby to address his host for once.

Oy, Ryou... Is it real?

Ryou's fingers dabbed into the blood, lifting it to his face. The familiar smell made it clear.]

It's... real...

[Swaying on his feet, he stepped back, sinking down to sit on the ground just outside the door. It was real. It was real. It was real. His mind kept repeating that over and over.

Hang in there! the spirit snapped, ready to take over in an instant if Ryou's mind looked like breaking from shock. It's just blood. It can't hurt you.

How could there be this much blood? His body couldn't stop trembling and after a moment he reached out to try the book. It wasn't any good. The amount of blood on it made it impossible to open...]

Where did she go...?

[She is clearly gone. Anywhere that she could possibly hide, like the bathtub, is completely empty. And with that much blood, there should at least be footprints indicating where she could have gone. There is nothing to indicate where the nurse might have gone.]

[Ryou finally brought a hand to his mouth, feeling like he might be sick at the confirmation that that blood was in fact...blood. He has to turn away from the bathroom, joining his Aniki on the floor.

After a minute, when he thinks he's swallowed down the worst threats of gagging, he turned to look at the bloody diary.]

A-aniki... [The stench of blood was dizzying. What was he thinking a moment ago? No...it was as if Lisa had simply been... gored and the body magicked away. No footprints, nothing...

Even his silly attempts at denial were utterly broken. He rested his face against his other self's back, sucking in a tremulous breath.]

People don't just... disappear... like that...

It doesn't make any sense! [Burying his face in his hands, he let the bloody diary drop to skid along the reddened floor. The blood on his fingertip left a red trail against his skin, but he hardly cared for that. How could something like this happen? It was like she was spirited away... but in that case, where would all the blood have come from? Where?

There's no sign of flesh.]

...huh?

[Bakura sighed within his head. Did he really have to explain that?

There's no flesh mixed with the blood. So she didn't explode, and she wasn't attacked. There'd be tissue mixed in, scraps of flesh...
You're making me feel sick. Stop it... please.
It's absurd. You two should get away from this room. Screw cleaning it up. You can do that once you've recovered.
Why are you being friendly?
It bugs me too. Whatever took her might come back for you two if you spend time in there. Better to leave it for now.]

Uhm. Shoutei. We should... get away from this room...

[The spirit is right. There's not a shred of torn cloth that might indicate some sort of attack. The only thing remaining is the diary, but it's just as covered in blood as everything else. Grabbing it would be a feat for either of them in this state.]

A-aniki... [He mumbled again, shaking worse than before.]

Why...? What happened to her? [Was she dead? She seemed like a nice woman...and now she was dead. Somehow, something had gotten to her. Oh God, what if something ate her? That would explain the lack of a body--

Ryou sharply covered his mouth again.

This place... He'd come to terms with the fact he might be stuck here, but after seeing this he was petrified. He just wanted to go home! Living alone in his apartment--even with the Ring--was better than this!]

I-I'm...too scared to move...

...I don't know. The spirit says she wasn't attacked. There's no physical signs of it.

[He should leave. Maybe they should move apartments again. Maybe there was some sort of danger.

But before that... he wanted to try the diary again.]

Stay here... [Slowly, not trusting his legs to support him, he crawled over to reach for the diary again. No sense worrying about the mess now, though he did his best not to touch the blood. Maybe she was writing something in it when she... when whatever it was happened. Oh god, this was gross. At last his fingers closed over the blood-soaked book again and he drew it back. Here goes nothing...

He tried to open it again.]

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[A lot of the writing is smeared to the point of being illegible. Other pages are glued to each other from the blood. But it appears to be Lisa's. Entries dating back to the 1970s comment on training to be a nurse, her excitement over getting a job at the hospital, an attraction to a 'Dr. K'.

It's only in the last written pages where things start to get strange.]

Asked the doctor to let me quit being in charge of that patient. It's too weird. Still alive, but with wounds that won't heal.

Told doctor I quit. Won't work at that hospital anymore.

[The next several lines are too smeared to read. The diary finally ends with a handful of words.]

Need drug

Help me

[Ryou stayed quiet this whole time, just huddled up against himself and trembling, trying to think of anything but what he just saw. He was even morbidly tempted to put the Ring on, just so he could get away. For the first time in his life, he wanted that scary man to take over...just so he could rest.

...That gave him another idea.

Ryou dug into his bag, pulling out the Ring, his eyes wide. His last conversation with that voice hadn't gone well at all. He wouldn't even talk to him...

H-hey...please...let me use the Ring for a second? T-this woman just...disappeared...

A tired, but amused voice replied. Disappeared? Sure, sure...but you'll have to put me on first. I can't help you like this.
I shouldn't...
But you want to know where she went, right...? H-heh...

Ryou swallowed, turning the Ring over in his hands and causing the prongs to jingle. If he put it on, the spirit really might take over. But...

At least he'd be away from all of this. No, no! He shouldn't think like that. He has to be stronger than that, even if it's...tempting. Just to get away from all this.

Well? Something bad might happen to her while you're hesitating, Landlord~
Ah...you're right...

Ryou grabbed the rope, moving to pull it over his neck.]

[It felt bad to reading someone else's diary, but none of this made sense anyway. Drug? Wounds that won't heal? What was this woman talking about? He'd think she was crazy if he hadn't seen this. His hands were slick with the blood that coated the book, but he was too fascinated to even notice.

Landlord, behind you! The voice snapped inside of his head and he whirled to see the other Ryou, wide-eyed and shaking, fingers clasping the rope around the Ring.]

Hey-! Hold on a minute! [Scrambling over, he dropped the book to grasp Ryou's wrist, leaving bloody marks there.]

What are you doing?! Weren't you going to try to avoid the need for that?!

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[I'm going to step out for now until you two figure out where Lisa is. ~~She's in the clinic where Snake left her~~]

[Ryou let out a harsh and sudden sob, allowing the Ring to slip from his fingers and clatter back into his lap.

Oh god, what was he doing?! All it took was a moment of weakness, and he'd nearly...]

I-I just thought, maybe...I could use the Ring...

...

Ah. That's right... But, Shoutei, I can use mine. There's no need for you to go that far...

[He let go of the other Ryou's wrist, looking ruefully at the mark he'd left.]

Sorry... I didn't think...

[He's not sure what he means to say. Ryou knew the real reason he almost put the Ring on, but he's not about to tell his other self that.

He looked down at the blood on his wrist, made a small noise, and quickly turned away.]

Man... if 'he' hadn't warned me...

[Oh well. No sense in making Ryou feel worse about it. Tugging the Ring out, gold chain and all, he held it in his hands. Where is she? he asked quietly, and was surprised when the prongs lifted to point at the door.]

Eh? She's still alive...?

[Ryou seemed to snap back to life, looking eager-eyed towards the door.]

We should go find her...! If she's alive, she must be really hurt!

Un. But I'd better leave a note for Malik. I don't want him walking in on this scene...

[Grabbing a pen and some paper, forgetting the blood on his hands, he scribbles off a quick note-

Don't go in the bathroom. A lady got kidnapped by something in there. There's a lot of blood.
-Ryou

-and left it pinned on the now-closed bathroom door.]

Come on.

That's...probably a good idea.

[Ryou stayed where he is, only getting up to walk on his weak knees once it was time to go. The Ring, of course, had been returned to his bag...]

I hope she's ok...

[Malik came home not long after, noticing the bloody diary on the floor before anything else. He gave the note on the door a read, and had only two questions:

1) Why the hell did Ryou have a lady over?
and 2) "Kidnapped by something"?

He decided to be curious and open the door. Even if the diary looked legitimately blood soaked, he still had to see for him--]

[...That was a blood soaked bathroom if he'd ever seen one.

Well, no time to waste then. Malik gathered their things with the help of Thunder Nyan Nyan and Man-Eater Bug and hauled ass out of there. This time, he was the one leaving Ryou a note, pinned on the now-closed bedroom door:

Moved to room [x]. I already took your things. You can thank me later.
-Malik

Now, now... I'm sure she's fine. Remember, the blood here didn't seem to come from any wounds. So she's probably physically unharmed... though where the blood came from, I've got no idea. Maybe whoever kidnapped her wanted to fake her death?

[He headed over to the door, offering the other Ryou a gentle smile.]

We'll find her, no problem.

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Just make Malik clean it up! :D

and then Malik will make Ryou clean it

nope sorry Malik you're on your own

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