"C'mon! Hurry! We gotta hurry, the storm's getting worse." Jounounchi Katsuya called to his friends, trying his best to keep the morale up.
They were caught in the middle of no where in a blizzard, and their hopes of surviving was dimming by each passing minute. Yugi had passed out, severe hypothermia, and Yami was carrying him close to his body to keep the body heat going. Ryou was slowing down, his feet betraying his thoughts. Kaiba held a Hypothermic, Frostbitten Mokuba in his arms. Honda was shirtless, giving his clothes away to keep the others warm, especially Kaiba, Mokuba and Malik. Jou navigated their way through the burning cold.
Ryou fell to his knees, un able to carry himself any farther, and Honda swiftly picked him up, thoughtlessly. Bakura was trying to keep Malik and Marik warm, but Malik was fading fast, and hope was bleak for their survival. Jou ran ahead, he had to find shelter, or they'd all die. It wasn't his fault they were even here. It was the middle of the desert-turned-snowland.
The snow was rising fast, two feet, and almost passing their knees, making it hard to trudge through. The wind was unbarable, and they couldn't see twenty yards infront of them. Jou had to find shelter for them, he just had to!
Mokuba was by far the worst, and Yugi a very close second. He himself was doing perfectly fine, Honda was badly frostbitten, his shoulders turned blue long ago, as well as his fingers, Kaiba was alright, Bakura and Marik were fine, Yami was fading fast, and Malik was fading even faster. There... Just a few feet away... A cave... This would be perfect for the time being.
Jou ran back, retracing his steps carefully, so not to get lost.
"I found a cave! C'mon!" Jou called to them, pulling them along.
The trek to the cave seemed longer with the others, and Jou was beginning to think he had just made it up in his mide, a delusion, but soon enough, they came upon the cave and hurried inside. Once they were deep enough, so the wind couldn't reach them, they set the ones they were holding down, and settled in.
"We need fire wood." Kaiba noted.
"I'll go find some." Honda nodded. Honda flirticiously kissed his cheek, and after pushing some hair out of Kaiba's eyes adoringly, hugging him goodbye, he walked out of the cave.
"We're in an ice desert." Kaiba yelled after him. "Crap."
"You couldn't tell him that before he left?" Bakura asked.
"He's in love, leave him alone." Malik whined slightly through shivers. "The mind slows, and dims, it becomes mush, trust me."
"Am not!" Kaiba pouted. "Anyway, does anyone have matches? We'll need food, and a container to cook in, heat water in, and hold whatever else."
"Yugi stole my lighter." Marik pointed. "I was trying to smoke, but the good hearted jerkface stole my freaken lighter."
Yami quickly searched Yugi's pockets, and came up with a jarge lighter. "It'll only do us good if Honda comes back."
"When." Kaiba snipped.
"I brought a metal pot of rice and... meat substance..." Jou pulled a medium size pot out of his pants.
"How do you do that?" Yami asked jealously.
"You should see what else I fit in there." Jou joked.
"Hmm... I think I may need to personally investigate what you're hiding in your pants." Yami purred.
"After we get out of this mess, you can set a date, and time." Jou kissed Yami's cheek.
"Anything else?" Kaiba asked.
Bakura picked up Ryou, and placed him between Yugi and Malik. "Ryou is naturally a warm body, if he warms up, we may have to deal with heat stroke." Bakura informed.
Marik sat down, and beckoned Bakura over, and Bakura snuggled close. "The best thing we can do is share body heat. Don't over work yourself, and whatever you do, do NOT sweat. If you Sweat, you'll cool down, and your hypothermia will get much worse."
Kaiba held Mokuba inside his coat, and breathed warm air onto his face, hands, neck, any place he could see was frostbitten. Yami held Jou close to him, knowing that even though Jou was trying to stay strong, healthy, and warm, he wasn't doing a very good job of it. Yami held him close for many hours, and stayed awake when everybody, excluding Kaiba had fallen to sleep.
They stared at eachother blankly, Kaiba fighting sleep, and Yami fully awake. Kaiba kept looking towards the cave entrance, waiting anxiously for Honda's return.
"If we close off the entrance, heat will stay in easier." Yami thought outloud.
"Not on your life." Kaiba growled, weakly, straining to stay awake.
"It's one, or nine, Kaiba." Yami said. "It's a hard decision, I know, but if we don't keep the warmth in, we're all going to die here."
Kaiba just stared out the mouth of the cave. "We're far enough in, the wind won't get us." Kaiba sighed.
"The wind is not what I am worried about." Yami sighed. "I'm just saying if we generate enough heat in here, and close the mouth of the cave, then we stand a better chance."
"What do you think we're going to do? These people are not about to just get up and do a hundred jumping jacks, ya know." Kaiba snapped harshly.
"If Honda was going to come back, he'd be here by now. Your boyfriends dead, get used to it!" Yami snapped right back, and only realized what he said, and how harsh he had said it, after he finished saying it. "Kaiba, I-"
"Take care of Mokuba. If I'm not back in an hour, close up the cave." Kaiba lay Mokuba gingerly at Yami's feet, and left.
"Kaiba-" Yami called after him. "Leaving is Suicide!"
"Then so be it." Kaiba called back.
Kaiba trudged through the snow, calling Honda's name as loud as he could. Kaiba didn't have to look far to Find Honda... or... Honda's body atleast. Kaiba wasn't sure if he was alive or not, but he was awestruck when he saw poor Honda's face. Honda's lips were blue, dark blue, and his skin was a pastey color. Kaiba picked the frozen boy up, and fell to his knee's. Kaiba held the boy in his arms, and felt for a pulse.
At first he couldn't find one, but after a few violent shakes of Honda's body, Kaiba found a faint one. He listened for breathing, and felt the cool breath on his ear, just barely exsistant. Kaiba looked around, and saw a bundle of wood... Honda had found some! Kaiba new it would be impossible to carry both, but he'd try!
He hoisted Honda over is shoulder, and held the bundle under the other arm. He began the trek to the cave. It seemed so much farther from his position now, but he had to keep going. He just had to. He wasn't going to let Honda die. It was... illegal. Or he felt as if it should've been. Kaiba made himself continue. He didn't give himself a choice.
He came in sight of the cave, and in a last ditch effort, made a final run for it. Kaiba collapsed inside the cave, next to Yami, and blanketed himself over Honda, unbuttoning his own shirt. He had to remove everything that was blocking his body heat from getting to Honda. He wrapped his shirt over them, and his trech coat like a blanket, huddling close.
"Get the fire going." Kaiba shivered. Honda was so cold, he was making Kaiba cold.
Kaiba breathed onto Honda's face, his cheeks, his neck, his collar bones, his shoulders, and took Honda's hands, and put them between himself and Honda. He was doing all he could do to keep Honda warm, and alive. Kaiba breathed onto his lips, and saw as his warm breath touched Honda's lips it steamed like a hot frying pan in cold water. Kaiba whimpered slightly. He knew this was hopeless. Honda was barely alive, or mostly dead, which ever way you look at it, it was pointless. Kaiba put his forehead to Honda's.
"C'mon, kid." Kaiba pleaded to Honda.
Kaiba could feel the heat from the fire, and he inched closer to it, pushing Honda as close as it was safe to be. Kaiba didn't leave his side, breathing warm air onto him. He knew Honda's body probably had gone into shock, and Honda's body was shutting down, but f he could wake up long enough to just... He didn't even know how to finish the sentence.
"Please." Kaiba begged.
By the time the fire was roaring and heating everybody up, the Yami's, Mokuba, and Jou woke up to the sight of Kaiba begging a blue-pastey Honda to be okay.
"Just wake up for me, okay?" Kaiba asked into Honda's ear.
No one knew what was actually happening.
"Malik was right." Marik smiled.
"Love turns your brain to mush." Bakura nodded.
"He's going to be alright, right?" Mokuba asked, looking at Honda and Kaiba intently. "I've never seen him act like this before."
No one else exsisted to Kaiba at that moment. The rest of the world was gone to him, and that was perfectly fine to him.
"I... I love you." Kaiba said, and let a few tears slip down his cheeks.
Honda made no response. Honda just lay there, helpless, vulnerable, but his mind lay intact.
"He's still in there." Ryou shot up, suddenly wide awake. "He's alive! He can hear you! He just needs to warm up!"
"How warm are you right now, Ryou?" Bakura asked.
"102.3" Ryou smirked. "Perfect!"
Ryou dragged himself over to Honda, and cuddled up to him.