Hi everyone, this is my strange attempt at a one-shot fic involving Yami Yugi/Yugi. Eheheh. I wanted to break free of the usual writing pattern, which is..well, I guess you know. Or maybe you don't. It's pretty cliche from what I read anyway. Anywho, I'm babbling now, so why doncha just go on and read the fic, huh? ^^'' ENJOY!
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Stranded
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- [ Yugi ] -
"Get up, pipsqueak."
The tone of voice was all too familiar to me. Mocking. Sneering.
"I said, GET UP."
I wasn't going to comply. Why should I? All that thug would do was punch me again. And my cheek was swollen enough as it was. Instead I spat at his feet.
"Idiot."
A sharp kick into my stomach caused me to double up in pain. I bit my lip, absorbing it, as so many times I had done before. I was lying on the floor huddled up in a ball; possibly in the most pathetic position that could be imagined by anyone in this screwed up world. With this in mind, I rose to my knees and stared the bully in the eye, glaring with all the hatred of people like me, people who'd been beaten up countless times by those for no good reason at all. Sure, I was smaller than him. Smarter than him too. But that was no reason to beat on me.
"Hah. Givin' in, are you? Smart choice, tiny."
Anger boiled in my veins, and I so wished I could hit him, crush his face in, pull his hair out. But I could barely reach the fat guy's face, much less touch him without receiveing major injuries in return.
Slowly I raised myself enough so that I was again standing on my own two feet. The thug raised his fist again, and I stood ready. He brought his fist back, farther and farther. And still I stood, watching carefully, waiting for the exact moment, exact second, when I would duck, slip under his gorilla-shaped arms and run away.
A cowardly thing to do, running away. But what choice did I have?
The thug grinned and started into his attack, but something stopped him. Anger worked its way into his features and he swung around to face that who dared disturb him. I backed away slowly, moving slightly to the side so I could see around the bully.
Ah. Yami. Just as I expected.
- [ Yami ] -
Poor Yugi. Always getting beat up by bullies and the like. It had happened too many times before, and here it was happening again.
"You leave him alone," I snarled, gripping the fist that was, just a moment before, ready to swing at Yugi. My poor hikari.
The bully's face was twisted in anger, but I gave him such a look of animosity, and I twisted his fist with all the strength I had put aside for just this that the bully's eyes widened in pain and fright. He turned and ran.
Yugi was standing no less than two feet away. I took two quick steps forward, bringing my hand up to my aibou's face. His cheek was swollen, his eye a sickly black-blue colour, and cuts were scattered about his delicate complexion. "Yugi..." I whispered. He turned away, his small hands curling into fists. I waited for the usual thanks and grateful smile, and perhaps the not-so-usual hug, when he'd bury his face in my chest. But today...nothing. He just stood there, shaking. His face was hidden by his golden bangs, and he stared at the ground.
"Yugi..." I reached out to him, more than ready to hold him, to comfort him, to tell him that it was alright. To clean off his face. To help him.
But today was different.
Today, he turned and ran.
- [ Yugi ] -
I ran, feeling the wind in my face. I ran as fast and as far as I could, away from the park, where I'd just been beat up. I ignored my Yami's shouts behind me. Why did he always have to be there? Why did he always have to come and save me? Why could I never fight for myself??
A quick glance over my shoulder told me that he wasn't in pursuit. "Good," I thought bitterly. I didn't need his company. I didn't need him to hug me and whisper soft words of comfort into my ear while dabbing at my cuts and bruises tenderly with a warm cloth. No. I shook my head vigorously. I slowed down into a walk. The Game Shop wasn't too far now. Just a block away. I decided I'd head there. It wasn't as though I had anything better to do.
- [ Yami ] -
I shoved my hands in my pockets. Yugi was acting really strange. Watching him run off in the direction of the Game Shop gave me a sharp pain in the heart. I wondered desperately what I'd done wrong.
Maybe Yugi just needed some time to cool off...to be by himself for a while.
My little hikari disappeared from view and I sighed.
I hoped desperately that he wouldn't go and do something stupid. After a while I started jogging in his direction, hoping to catch him. Maybe I could help sort this out.
- [ Yugi ] -
I reached the game shop. I peeked inside the front windows only to see my friends there, talking with Grandpa. I quickly ducked out of view again in case they saw me. I didn't feel like talking to them at the moment.
Instead I walked around the side of the small shop and stopped in the back yard. I glanced up at the large oak tree that sat peacefully beside the building. It always provided shade for me when I sat reading in the garden, and sometimes I climbed it, seeking security in its humble branches and protective leaves.
But that was before Yami. Yami was my protector now...
But no more. He didn't always need to burst in and save the day. I wished that I could fight my own fights for once. Just once...
I scampered up the tree. If there was one thing that I was good at, it was climbing trees. The branches were oh-so-familiar, and I had no problems getting up almost to the top in barely any time at all.
"Good to see you again, old friend." I smiled as I said this, leaning back against the sturdy trunk. I picked a single leaf off the tree. It had a small hole in it where a bug had probably eaten through. I used it to wipe my face, careful to avoid spots that pained too much to bear. When I looked at the leaf again it was spotted red. I smirked, but that caused my cheek to hurt so I stopped. Letting my leg dangle off the tree branch, I sighed in what I thought to be an apathetic way.
I suppose it was more of a sad sigh though.
- [ Yami ] -
The more I ran, the more I felt guilty for making Yugi angry. I still didn't know for sure what was wrong, but I was sure that it was my fault in some way. Why else would Yugi have run?
I arrived at the Game Shop sooner than I had anticipated. Stopping just outside the doors, I debated with myself whether to go in or not. Well, it was worth a shot anyway. Pushing open the door and strolling in, I was about to go right past the counter and up the stairs to Yugi's room, hoping to find the disgruntled teen there.
I was so absorbed in thought that I almost didn't hear the greeting that Tea, Tristan, Joey and Grandpa called to me. I looked up in surprise. "Oh, hello there..." I managed to say. "Hey, have you guys seen Yugi anywhere?"
They exchanged confused glances. "We thought he was with you."
I nodded, feeling dejected. "Let me know if you see him, ok?"
The others nodded as I made my way up the stairs. I didn't really have a reason, but since I didn't know where else to look, I had nothing else to do except go into our room and wait for him to come back. Assuming he would come back...
This thought struck me. What if he didn't come back?
Great, another thing to worry about. I believed strongly that Yugi would definately not run away, although the possibility never left my head. I went and lay down on the bed we shared, staring hopefully out the window. My eyes wandered about, looking from the neighbour's hanging laundry to the Motou's garden to the large oak tree that had been there for quite a long time. I smiled a little. Then my eyes started wandering again...From the blue pant leg hanging from a branch of the oak tree to a dog sniffing around the fence post to...wait.
My pupils darted back to the pant leg. There was a shoe connected to the end of it. I looked down at my own pant leg and shoe. There was definately a resemblance. Realization set in very quickly, so fast I just had to grin.
I opened the window and climbed nimbly out of it, using the strong branch of the oak tree to support me. Crawling along the limb of the old tree, I made my way over to the place where the leg was hanging from. I climbed up to the branch next to it with little difficulty and sat there, catching my breath a little. He looked so beautiful...Just lying there, sleeping...My little angel.
I lay my hand onto his cheek gently. He had turned away earlier, but now he just let out a tiny sigh of contentment. I smiled.
- [ Yugi ] -
I was running. Running as fast as I could. I was trying to get away from someone, or something..I couldn't remember at that point. The woods I was running through were cruel. The leaves, branches, tree roots, all grabbed at me, tore my clothes. I tripped twice, both times just scrambling back up to my feet again.
There was a light, and that's what I was running towards. The forest was thick with vegetation and now my only thought was to get back into the sunshine.
Closer...closer...until...
"AAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHH!" I screamed loudly as I ran right off the edge of a cliff. So this was where the forest ended. "YAMI!" I screamed again. "YAMI!" I kept repeating it, over and over and over as I fell, again out of the sun and into the immense darkness.
- [ Yami ] -
I had been watching Yugi closely. It appeared he was dreaming - and it wasn't a good dream. His face was twisted in anxiety and he started to pant. Worry creased my own face, but I let him dream. Suddenly he screamed and started thrashing about. I jumped in surprise and nearly slid off the tree.
Yugi was starting to slip, too, still moving his body violently. He was yelling again as well. "YAMI! YAMI!"
Yugi needed me. Three stories doesn't seem that much of a fall, but after falling all that way you'd beg to differ.
I hooked my legs around a slimmer branch and grabbed onto his arm just as he fell off the branch, grunting with the effort. He was small and therefore fairly light, but I wasn't really that much bigger than him. Worse yet, the branch my legs were hooked onto was starting to bend.
"Damn. YUGI! YUGI, WAKE UP!!" I shouted at the little one. He blinked then looked down and gasped in fear. "Yugi!! Damnit, grab onto a branch already!" He looked up at me in shock. His eyes then traveled to my hands, grasped firmly around his. The slim branch was bending quickly. Yugi quickly realized what was happening, and reached with his other arm around a branch directly below the one he'd just fallen off of.
Yugi scrambled to safely.
The fragile limb snapped just as Yugi righted himself.
I started to fall.
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Whew. Yup, I am going to continue. This was going to be a one-shot fic, and it will be when I send it in. That is, send it into this Yu-Gi-Oh writing contest. (http://www.geocities.com/yugiohfanfiction/) Not now though, I couldn't wait to post it. ~_^
Please let me know what you think, kay? ^_^ Thanks!!
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Stranded
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- [ Yugi ] -
"Get up, pipsqueak."
The tone of voice was all too familiar to me. Mocking. Sneering.
"I said, GET UP."
I wasn't going to comply. Why should I? All that thug would do was punch me again. And my cheek was swollen enough as it was. Instead I spat at his feet.
"Idiot."
A sharp kick into my stomach caused me to double up in pain. I bit my lip, absorbing it, as so many times I had done before. I was lying on the floor huddled up in a ball; possibly in the most pathetic position that could be imagined by anyone in this screwed up world. With this in mind, I rose to my knees and stared the bully in the eye, glaring with all the hatred of people like me, people who'd been beaten up countless times by those for no good reason at all. Sure, I was smaller than him. Smarter than him too. But that was no reason to beat on me.
"Hah. Givin' in, are you? Smart choice, tiny."
Anger boiled in my veins, and I so wished I could hit him, crush his face in, pull his hair out. But I could barely reach the fat guy's face, much less touch him without receiveing major injuries in return.
Slowly I raised myself enough so that I was again standing on my own two feet. The thug raised his fist again, and I stood ready. He brought his fist back, farther and farther. And still I stood, watching carefully, waiting for the exact moment, exact second, when I would duck, slip under his gorilla-shaped arms and run away.
A cowardly thing to do, running away. But what choice did I have?
The thug grinned and started into his attack, but something stopped him. Anger worked its way into his features and he swung around to face that who dared disturb him. I backed away slowly, moving slightly to the side so I could see around the bully.
Ah. Yami. Just as I expected.
- [ Yami ] -
Poor Yugi. Always getting beat up by bullies and the like. It had happened too many times before, and here it was happening again.
"You leave him alone," I snarled, gripping the fist that was, just a moment before, ready to swing at Yugi. My poor hikari.
The bully's face was twisted in anger, but I gave him such a look of animosity, and I twisted his fist with all the strength I had put aside for just this that the bully's eyes widened in pain and fright. He turned and ran.
Yugi was standing no less than two feet away. I took two quick steps forward, bringing my hand up to my aibou's face. His cheek was swollen, his eye a sickly black-blue colour, and cuts were scattered about his delicate complexion. "Yugi..." I whispered. He turned away, his small hands curling into fists. I waited for the usual thanks and grateful smile, and perhaps the not-so-usual hug, when he'd bury his face in my chest. But today...nothing. He just stood there, shaking. His face was hidden by his golden bangs, and he stared at the ground.
"Yugi..." I reached out to him, more than ready to hold him, to comfort him, to tell him that it was alright. To clean off his face. To help him.
But today was different.
Today, he turned and ran.
- [ Yugi ] -
I ran, feeling the wind in my face. I ran as fast and as far as I could, away from the park, where I'd just been beat up. I ignored my Yami's shouts behind me. Why did he always have to be there? Why did he always have to come and save me? Why could I never fight for myself??
A quick glance over my shoulder told me that he wasn't in pursuit. "Good," I thought bitterly. I didn't need his company. I didn't need him to hug me and whisper soft words of comfort into my ear while dabbing at my cuts and bruises tenderly with a warm cloth. No. I shook my head vigorously. I slowed down into a walk. The Game Shop wasn't too far now. Just a block away. I decided I'd head there. It wasn't as though I had anything better to do.
- [ Yami ] -
I shoved my hands in my pockets. Yugi was acting really strange. Watching him run off in the direction of the Game Shop gave me a sharp pain in the heart. I wondered desperately what I'd done wrong.
Maybe Yugi just needed some time to cool off...to be by himself for a while.
My little hikari disappeared from view and I sighed.
I hoped desperately that he wouldn't go and do something stupid. After a while I started jogging in his direction, hoping to catch him. Maybe I could help sort this out.
- [ Yugi ] -
I reached the game shop. I peeked inside the front windows only to see my friends there, talking with Grandpa. I quickly ducked out of view again in case they saw me. I didn't feel like talking to them at the moment.
Instead I walked around the side of the small shop and stopped in the back yard. I glanced up at the large oak tree that sat peacefully beside the building. It always provided shade for me when I sat reading in the garden, and sometimes I climbed it, seeking security in its humble branches and protective leaves.
But that was before Yami. Yami was my protector now...
But no more. He didn't always need to burst in and save the day. I wished that I could fight my own fights for once. Just once...
I scampered up the tree. If there was one thing that I was good at, it was climbing trees. The branches were oh-so-familiar, and I had no problems getting up almost to the top in barely any time at all.
"Good to see you again, old friend." I smiled as I said this, leaning back against the sturdy trunk. I picked a single leaf off the tree. It had a small hole in it where a bug had probably eaten through. I used it to wipe my face, careful to avoid spots that pained too much to bear. When I looked at the leaf again it was spotted red. I smirked, but that caused my cheek to hurt so I stopped. Letting my leg dangle off the tree branch, I sighed in what I thought to be an apathetic way.
I suppose it was more of a sad sigh though.
- [ Yami ] -
The more I ran, the more I felt guilty for making Yugi angry. I still didn't know for sure what was wrong, but I was sure that it was my fault in some way. Why else would Yugi have run?
I arrived at the Game Shop sooner than I had anticipated. Stopping just outside the doors, I debated with myself whether to go in or not. Well, it was worth a shot anyway. Pushing open the door and strolling in, I was about to go right past the counter and up the stairs to Yugi's room, hoping to find the disgruntled teen there.
I was so absorbed in thought that I almost didn't hear the greeting that Tea, Tristan, Joey and Grandpa called to me. I looked up in surprise. "Oh, hello there..." I managed to say. "Hey, have you guys seen Yugi anywhere?"
They exchanged confused glances. "We thought he was with you."
I nodded, feeling dejected. "Let me know if you see him, ok?"
The others nodded as I made my way up the stairs. I didn't really have a reason, but since I didn't know where else to look, I had nothing else to do except go into our room and wait for him to come back. Assuming he would come back...
This thought struck me. What if he didn't come back?
Great, another thing to worry about. I believed strongly that Yugi would definately not run away, although the possibility never left my head. I went and lay down on the bed we shared, staring hopefully out the window. My eyes wandered about, looking from the neighbour's hanging laundry to the Motou's garden to the large oak tree that had been there for quite a long time. I smiled a little. Then my eyes started wandering again...From the blue pant leg hanging from a branch of the oak tree to a dog sniffing around the fence post to...wait.
My pupils darted back to the pant leg. There was a shoe connected to the end of it. I looked down at my own pant leg and shoe. There was definately a resemblance. Realization set in very quickly, so fast I just had to grin.
I opened the window and climbed nimbly out of it, using the strong branch of the oak tree to support me. Crawling along the limb of the old tree, I made my way over to the place where the leg was hanging from. I climbed up to the branch next to it with little difficulty and sat there, catching my breath a little. He looked so beautiful...Just lying there, sleeping...My little angel.
I lay my hand onto his cheek gently. He had turned away earlier, but now he just let out a tiny sigh of contentment. I smiled.
- [ Yugi ] -
I was running. Running as fast as I could. I was trying to get away from someone, or something..I couldn't remember at that point. The woods I was running through were cruel. The leaves, branches, tree roots, all grabbed at me, tore my clothes. I tripped twice, both times just scrambling back up to my feet again.
There was a light, and that's what I was running towards. The forest was thick with vegetation and now my only thought was to get back into the sunshine.
Closer...closer...until...
"AAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHH!" I screamed loudly as I ran right off the edge of a cliff. So this was where the forest ended. "YAMI!" I screamed again. "YAMI!" I kept repeating it, over and over and over as I fell, again out of the sun and into the immense darkness.
- [ Yami ] -
I had been watching Yugi closely. It appeared he was dreaming - and it wasn't a good dream. His face was twisted in anxiety and he started to pant. Worry creased my own face, but I let him dream. Suddenly he screamed and started thrashing about. I jumped in surprise and nearly slid off the tree.
Yugi was starting to slip, too, still moving his body violently. He was yelling again as well. "YAMI! YAMI!"
Yugi needed me. Three stories doesn't seem that much of a fall, but after falling all that way you'd beg to differ.
I hooked my legs around a slimmer branch and grabbed onto his arm just as he fell off the branch, grunting with the effort. He was small and therefore fairly light, but I wasn't really that much bigger than him. Worse yet, the branch my legs were hooked onto was starting to bend.
"Damn. YUGI! YUGI, WAKE UP!!" I shouted at the little one. He blinked then looked down and gasped in fear. "Yugi!! Damnit, grab onto a branch already!" He looked up at me in shock. His eyes then traveled to my hands, grasped firmly around his. The slim branch was bending quickly. Yugi quickly realized what was happening, and reached with his other arm around a branch directly below the one he'd just fallen off of.
Yugi scrambled to safely.
The fragile limb snapped just as Yugi righted himself.
I started to fall.
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Whew. Yup, I am going to continue. This was going to be a one-shot fic, and it will be when I send it in. That is, send it into this Yu-Gi-Oh writing contest. (http://www.geocities.com/yugiohfanfiction/) Not now though, I couldn't wait to post it. ~_^
Please let me know what you think, kay? ^_^ Thanks!!