...Because she's good with lost causes. And Ryo falls into the "lost cause" category nicely.

This was done for Anzu's birthday but I didn't get it scanned until now. Wanted to try a different pairing so Ryo/Anzu. This one came from when I was watching the Tekken movie. The first thing that stuck out to me was that Jun looks a lot like Anzu. So I should have made a sensible cross cast, like having Anzu as Jun and Seto as Kazuya, or having Asuka as Jun and Ryo as Kazuya, but I thought why not mix and match? So Anzu ended up being Jun and Ryo being Kazuya. From then I created this little AU thing. Fubuki was involved too but he's not mentioned in this scene.

And I know the Yami fans might be annoyed at the clothes Ryo is wearing but I've been wanting to draw him in a sleeveless black top for a while now.

Here's the drabble:

She shifted her hand through his hair contentedly.
She could understand him now. Before he had just been another emotionless antagonist who opposed her, but as she watched him cry so humanly she finally saw his true side. Really he was just confused and didn’t have anyone who could understand him. Like the Pharaoh was. And maybe even Ryou Bakura.
Now that she recognised this dealing with Ryo would be a lot easier. Though she had to admit she’d never been that good at dealing with Ryou or Yami when they were around… But at least she could offer him a shoulder to cry on.
…Or rather a lap to cry on. As that was where he was slumped right now. Usually it would have bothered her more that a boy had his head on her lap but she knew Ryo was simply looking for comfort and not attraction.
He knew of his sins and she wasn’t going to hold them against him.