Alice4eva: HEY GUYS! This is alice4eva here. Let's get down to business. Okay, so I got the idea for this fanfic while my Nana and I were driving home from the store and then it went from there. Ever since the idea came to me, I've been thinking about how it could grow. So you should know there will be a lot of YugiXPegasus. As the fanfic grows, there will be puzzleshipping. I know my fanfic A Matter of Trust hasn't been getting the kind of attention it should so I 'd like all the people who read this to R&R so I know it's worth being a fanfic. But that doesn't mean you shouldn't review for this story.
And on with the story.
Disclaimer: I do not own Yu-Gi-Oh and any of its characters. The plot's all mine. So don't sue me.
He couldn't justify it. When it happened, Yugi just let it happen. It wasn't as if he could do anything about it. Afterwards his mother would put salve on his wounds and held him while he cried himself to sleep.
When he went to school and other kids asked what had happened to him, he would say he got hurt practicing baseball. He wouldn't even tell Tea, Joey or Tristan; his closest friends. He feared his father deeply. He didn't know why him. There was no reason that he could notice.
When he was black and blue where people could see he didn't go to school for days, weeks even. But Yugi put on a brave face and put on the happy mask that people wanted to see. The carefree, happy-go-lucky Yugi that every one liked to see, that they needed to see. If they knew the real Yugi inside, the ugly Yugi, they'd never understand.
"Come on Yugi show us the routine again! The way we do it, it looks all weird!"
Yugi laughed and said "Okay but I have to leave at 4:00."
He was helping with cheerleading practice again.
He wasn't a cheerleader and he didn't want to be but he liked to help the cheerleaders out and make up routines for them. Yugi loved doing this because he didn't have to be afraid. He could have fun and be the Yugi that was bottled up inside.
Yugi went back to doing the routine unaware that someone was watching him from the corner with interest.
Pegasus had been watching Yugi since he'd first dueled him in Duelist Kingdom. He knew that Yugi had been doing this for a year already and that he liked to help the art teacher paint around Domino High. There was something about him that drew Pegasus to him. Pegasus looked on as Yugi continued showed the girls the routine.
He came down from a toe-touch laughing. Yugi talked to the girls as if it were the most natural thing in the world.
Yugi looked back to see a man with long silver hair near the back doors. He had an expensive looking red suit and was looking curiously back at him. Yugi seemed to remember him from somewhere. I think that's Pegasus! Mom told me about him, that I shouldn't trust him. That he's dangerous. What is he doing here?
Yugi turned back to the girls and looked down at his watch.
His eyes widened. It was 4:30. He was supposed to be home half an hour ago! He seriously had to get home.
Yugi grabbed his book bag and cell phone and headed towards the door. "I gotta go guys. See you tomorrow!"
The girls waved and said goodbye. When Yugi got to the doors, Pegasus was already gone.
He hurried towards home hoping that he could explain himself and that he would be going to school tomorrow.
Yugi rushed to the door desperately dug through his bag to get his keys. He nervously put the key in the keyhole and opened up the door.
There stood his mother and father. His mother looked as if she had been crying. His father looked desirably mad. He had a belt in his hand and a scowl on his face.
"WHERE THE HELL have you been!" His father bellowed. Yugi backed away towards the door. He was terrified and fearful of what his father would do.
"I'm sorry. I was helping after school. I just lost track of time," Yugi said with tears in his eyes.
His father stepped up and grabbed his shirt collar. "When I tell you the time I want you home, I mean it! Got it?" The man said through clenched teeth.
Yugi nodded quickly and said, "It'll never happen again.
You're damn right it won't!"
"I was only late a half hour though," Yugi said under his breath as his father started to walk away.
"What was that?!"
Yugi looked up in horror as his father raised his belt. He looked to his mother to see she was crying. She cried out,
"Honey! NO!"
Yugi was slumped against the front door barely conscious. Yugi could still here his parents. They were arguing.
"I can't live like this! I thought I could take it and stop it. But it's no use!" His mother looked the man directly in the eye and glared. "Do you even know why you do it anymore? I can't help Yugi in any way except get him away from you! Just look at him!"
The man looked over to his son. Yugi was gaining consciousness. He raised his head and looked at his father.
"I… HATE…you!" Yugi had tears in his eyes and a glower on his face. "What did I possibly do to you to deserve this? Would you like it if some one hit you and pushed you around?"
It looked as if it had finally set in, for the man looked down. He looked as if he were thinking hard. He looked up and said, "Yugi… I-I'm so sorry. I didn't know that… what I was doing was wrong. I-It's…there's no real reason to justify what I but I hope you can…"
That made Yugi incredibly mad. "And then you want me to forgive for all the years of abuse and torment that you caused me. You want me to say 'sorry' just like and act as if it never happened and we can all go back to our normal, happy lives. Well I've never had a normal, happy life."
"Yugi, I…"
"SHUT UP! I HATE YOU"
"Yugi," his mother came over to him and wrapped arms around him. "Calm down. It's okay."
He shrugged himself out of her hug. "Mom, it's not okay. All right? It's never okay. I hate having to live in fear everyday wondering what he's going to do to me. I'm sick of it Mom! I can't live like this. I can't live under the same roof as him."
Yugi ran up the steps with his bag. When he got to the door of his room he stopped and choked out in a loud breath, "I can honestly say Dad that I stopped loving you a real long time ago." Then he slammed the door behind him and locked it.
A couple of hours later Yugi could still here his parents talking softly but he didn't care. He wanted to cry. He wanted to let all of his emotions and tears out but he was too
mad. Yugi was on his bed laying down turned away from the door. How he think he could justify it like that? Like it was nothing. He doesn't even know the kind of pain he's caused me. He's nothing to me anymore.
He heard a small tap on his door. "Yugi?" his mother said softly. Yugi got up and unlocked his door. "Come in Mom." She followed Yugi to the bed and sat down.
"Yugi I'm so sorry for all of this. I just want to talk to you. If there's anything, you want to say I'm here. Your father went for a drive."
Yugi sat up and let it all out. He just kept talking and talking to his mother who didn't do anything but listen, filling remorse and more for her son. "Your father's not so okay in the head sometimes. There is no excuse for his actions. But your does love you and his extremely sorry."
"But that doesn't make it right. Mom I actually do not feel sorry for all the things I said to him earlier. I meant. I said because I feel it. Mom I can't live with him no matter how sorry he is."
His mother gave a sigh. She rubbed his back and "Okay. You can just go to bed and we'll figure something out tomorrow. Tonight I just want you to rest."
"Okay Mom." He gave his a hug. "I love you Mom."
"I love you too."
His mother tucked him and stayed in his room watching over him until he fell asleep. She got up took one last look and closed the door.
Yugi sat up as soon as his mother left the room. He had been planning leaving for a long time but he never had the real courage to do it until now. He grabbed an old bag and started throwing clothing clothes in it. He changed out of his blue school uniform and changed into pair of blue jeans and a white short-sleeved hoodie. He grabbed his cell phone, his keys, and a picture of his mother and put it in the bag. He checked his pocket. He had a little under $35 dollars. That might get him on the bus and something to eat for three days. He shoved it in his pocket and headed for his window.
He opened it up, its squeaky noise loud in the night when everyone was asleep. He stuck one foot out and stopped. He couldn't leave without saying goodbye to his Mom. He wrote a quick note left it on her nightstand. He noticed that his father wasn't in the room. He must be sleeping on the couch. That means I can't leave through the front door. Not that I was going to anyways.
He stole quietly through his mother's room over to her side of the bed. He tripped over one of his mother's high-heeled pumps. "Ooof!" He quickly got up to see if she had woken up. She hadn't. His mother was a heavy sleeper.
When he got over to her, Yugi looked down to his mother's sleeping form. He loved his mother so much. He just couldn't leave home without leaving a note and saying goodbye.
Since she was asleep, he couldn't actually say goodbye but he said it in the note. He gave a her strong hug and said "Goodbye Mom. I'll love you always." Yugi let go and left the room before he started crying. He didn't bother saying goodbye to his father.
He went back to his room and made a rope out of his sheets. He hung it out of his window. He grabbed his journal put it in the already full bag, and slung the bag on his back. He stuck one foot out the window and held on securely to the makeshift rope. He brought his other leg out and made his way down the rope. Out of his window. Out of his old life and into a new one. Into a new beginning.
The moon shining brightly as he walked down the road away from his house.
Alice4eva: Whoo! I'm exhausted! Writing that took a lot out of me. I'm so tired. I'm sorry if it's a little long and heavy for the first chapter but I swear it was worth it. Hmm… I can't think of any thing to say except R&R. Maybe when you review I'll find something to say. Until next time. : )
Ciao Friends!
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