Chapter 1: Outburst

'What the hell did I do?' was all the delivery boy could think as he jumped back dodging a blow from his best friend. The boy was faster, more agile… Yusei had never been like this in the past. Yusei was always a quiet boy… a quiet soul who sat with his newest creation happily, for hours working endlessly in the hopes of bringing it to life. Yusei was the quiet boy who would set tirelessly working at his computer trying to program a proper operating system for his (or a friend's) d-wheel. So needless to say the older of the two was taken by surprise when the raven haired boy had lashed out at him. It was rather sudden. Crow couldn't put the event into words.

"Yusei! Yusei? Look I said I'm sorry! Just calm down Ok!" the red head shouted as he held up an arm to block the fist that was thrust at him. Crow jumped back, to dodge the next onslaught of blows in his direction only to trip. The heel of his foot caught the small red tool chest setting on the floor and the small frame went tumbling backwards. Hazel eyes went wide as their owner felt his back hit the floor with a hard thud.

"Now I have you!" the raven haired duelist hissed as he drilled a fist into the fallen male's cheek, firmly grabbing him by the collar with his free hand.

"YUSEI! STOP! PLEASE!" Crow shouted simply distraught at his friend's behavior. However despite his plea, the younger of the two ignored the words and continued to drill fist after fist into the smaller frame below him. Blood running from Crows now cracked lip he weakly reached up to grab Yusei by the wrist in order to at least to prevent one more blow. It was then, that Crow took the time to look at the boy before him. His eyes were wild and his hair was a mess. More Yellow streaks than normal wildly stood along his spikes and a fiery red rage swirled in his one open eye.

"Yus-ei?" The smaller male stuttered, slightly frightened of the boy that stood over him with a wicked grin painted on his lips.

"YUSEI!" a female voice filled the room. Footsteps came clanking down metal stairs rapidly as the sounds of a duel disk falling into activation. Before either of the two boys knew what had happened the raven haired duelist was wrapped in the vines of a rose and being lifted off of the ground forcefully.

"Yusei Fudo! Just what has gotten into you?" the female voice screamed, her voice echoing off the walls as she bellowed at the man caught in the grasp of her monster. She turned her attention to the battered body on the floor for only a moment to ask "Crow are you alright?"

"Just fine, Aki. Just gunna lay here for a while though." The red head spoke weakly. With that the Psychic duelist turned back the boy trapped in her plant's thorns.

"Yusei just what the hell is wrong with you?" she snapped again as she watched the blue eyed boy thrash about, only causing himself more injuries.

"Let me go! I demand you let me go this instant, you little bitch!" he growled at her jerking roughly against a thorn and causing a minor slash to his arm. Before he could say anything else he felt his body thrashed against a wall, and then all he saw was black.

"Aki! What the hell was that for? That's YUSEI you're thrashing around!" Crow shouted setting up suddenly, worry painting his features as he saw his best friend pass out in the Roses clutches.

Aki gave the boy an unconcerned glance. "And it was you that he seemed to beat the shit out of for no good reason. This is Yusei we're talking about…. He is capable of taking a beating. He'll be fine." she stated casually as she too watched the small boy's body go limp. However, ignoring the thin line of red now running from Yusei's forehead as he 'slept' in the not-so-gentle-arms of Aki's rose, she didn't release him. Crow could only stare, he wanted to say something in protest but couldn't find the energy. Aki knew what she was doing and Crow knew she wouldn't do anything too serious to hurt Yusei… at least so he hoped.

It didn't take long before Jack came home after a "hard day's work" (if you considered a hard day flirting with the locals and drinking coffee) and saw this scene before him. It had been a couple of hours and the twins had made their way over to the house, and could be found on the floor patching up the wounded Crow, while Aki however was still holding an unconscious Yusei 'at bay'.

"What the hell happened here?" The former king snapped, pointing a finger dramatically at the boy suspended in the 'witch's' vines. "Why the hell is Yusei unconscious?" he snapped his violet eyes falling on the orange haired male looking for answered. He was silenced quickly at that question and brought to another, "And what the hell happened to you?" The Blond snapped crossing his arms in annoyance.

"He happened." Crow snapped pointing up at their raven haired friend. Jack merely rose an eyebrow at this accusation. That hardly made sense. This was Yusei he was talking about, the boy could hardly come to hurt and animal let alone a friend. He practically forced himself to take out Kiryu for crying out loud. …. No Scratch that. Yusei did force himself to fight Kiryu… so there was no way Yusei of all people could be the cause of Crow's injuries.

"No Seriously…what happened?" Jack snapped again and Crow balled a fist in frustration. How could Jack just not believe him? Why would be lie about something like this? Something was seriously wrong with Yusei and Jack didn't seem to care.

"I told you. Yusei. He was Yusei but he wasn't… Jack it was like he was a different person. Like he just snapped. All I did was go to tell him was sorry for a few days ago…." Crow started, pausing only for a moment.

"You mean the kidnapping? Yusei was up and about?" The blond interjected.

"Yeah. He was working on his D-Wheel and I wanted to apologize for ya know…. Not being there for him and all and the next thing I know he turned around and punched me in the face. Jack he just snapped. He caught me so off guard that I didn't know what to do…" Crow explained his eyes looking to the floor as he spoke. There was a silence that filled the room for a few moments as the air became dry and settled around them.

"When I came in Yusei had Crow pinned to the ground and was beating him to death." Aki crossed her arms, setting a gaze on the other two boys, but not letting up her guard/hold on the other sleeping boy. Before the blond could respond to the woman's words a soft grunt filled the air. All eyes dashed up the boy in question and watched as his body shifted and he slowly rose his head.

Eyes opened slowly, revealing the ever calming blue that everyone knew and loved. Crow took in a sigh of relief to not see that crazy blaze of red fire staring back at him. Blurry in sight, Yusei looked around the room slowly. Soon enough the raven haired duelist realized there was no floor as he pushed down a foot.

"Gah!" he shouted squirming at the sudden shock only causing the thorns to dig into his arm with the sudden twist. "Ow!" he sounded again looking about to realize he was caught in Rose Tentacles' grasp once again. "What is going on? Aki what are you doing put me down!" he sounded in surprise and tried to stop himself from his instinctual reactions to squirm in his bonds.

"This is for your safety and ours Yusei." She responded shortly, giving him a cold glare.

"Safety?" he shouted looking through the room, his eyes growing wide as they settled on his orange haired friend. "… Crow! Crow, Are you ok? What happened?"

The smaller boy looked away, crossing his arms with care as to not aggravate his sore muscles. "Tch- don't even try that Yus'. You beat the shit out of me without warning and then act like you don't remember? Well if this a joke man, I ain't laughin." he snapped, anger obviously lacing his tone.

Yusei shook as the words rolled off of Crow's tongue. There was no way….he was responsible? No! There had to be another reason… something happened. That had to be the case. Yusei refused to believe that he was the cause for Crow's injuries. He would never raise a hand to one of his friends. He loved his friends. His friends were his special treasures…there was no way…no way he would hurt them….was there? He dropped his head, his dark bangs falling over his eyes. He didn't know what to say. What could he say? He couldn't remember a large chunk of time…and he had no explanation of why. He remembered Crow starting to talk to him while he was repairing his D-Wheel and that's where the record stopped.

"Now guys don't jump to conclusions! That's just not Yusei! Yusei loves us too much! He wouldn't ever do anything to hurt us." Rua chimed in after seeing the reaction Yusei gave to Crow's explanation.

"Rua's right. That really honestly doesn't sound like Yusei." Ruka spoke, also agreeing with her sibling.

Aki crossed her arms and looked to the two children. "You're right, it doesn't sound like Yusei… but I know what I saw -"

"- And I know what I felt." Crow added with a ginger touch to one of his already well developed bruises, "-and Yus' has one of the meanest rights I've ever gotten decked with. This blood ain't make-believe kiddies." The red head sighed, gathering his thuoghts. "Look- I know just as well as the next guy…. Hell better than the next guy that Yus' is one of the gentlest people I've ever met, but that doesn't change the fact that he's the one that beat the living tar out me." Crow piped in with a slight hesitance to his voice. His grey eyes looked up to the one he called his best friend, almost pained to look at him - his mind seriously wondering what was wrong. "Yusei… you know if you ever have something you want to talk about… anything you need to get off your chest you can come to me right? I don't know what I did to set you off, and I wanted to tell you I'm sorry about the other day - cause I really am - I just - I just don't like seeing you like this buddy. Yusei, are you ok? What's wrong? You can talk to us… we're your friends."

Yusei yet again, was struck silent by the boy's words unable to think of the proper way to explain his situation. It had been three days since he was kidnapped - for a second time. This time had been different. This time no one had come to his rescue. This time he had his captor's messing with this head. He didn't know exactly what they did to him. He couldn't remember that either, but he did remember waking up, back at home with everyone looking over him with worry.

"Yusei… What's wrong? Are you alright?" The smaller Satellite sounded once more, worried for his friend.

Yusei's voice came soft and quiet, as he refused to look up. "Crow… I'm sorry. I - I - I don't know. I - I- I can't…..remember." he paused, causing everyone to stare at the boy in confusion. "Anything."

To be Continued….