-1Chapter Two: Awake
Yami awoke slowly, groggily. He opened his eyes to unfamiliar surroundings, became conscious of unfamiliar pain. He tried to shift his body, but his arms wouldn't move. Raising his head, he was stunned to see that his wrists were shackled from hanging chains in the wall his back was against. Because of this, he also found that he was forced on his knees in a subservient position, kneeling before whoever approached him. Shaking the cobwebs from his thoughts, he worked to remember just how he got here….wherever here was. A car….a car speeding down the street, a door swinging open…Lapis…. Yami straightened and jerked his chains as the memories came rushing back, wincing in pain as the shackles bit into his skin. He had turned when Lapis shouted out his name, had been delirious with joy in the fact that she called him by name. My name….I have to tell her…. Shaking more webs from his thoughts, he struggled to remember more. The black car, men began spilling out, running towards him. They hurt Lapis. He remembered fighting, fighting to get to her side, needing to reach her…and for a brief moment, a short-lived joy-filled moment he thought he had. Then…black…nothing and he was, chained to a wall in a place he didn't know. Where was Lapis? He began looking around, but although the room he was in was huge, it was dimly lit and he couldn't see much. Suddenly overhead lights turned on, glaring down on him with a vengeance, causing him to squint. More and more lights blared, revealing the wall he was chained to was…
A dueling field!
Yami immediately knew where he was. Only one place in the city had fields this large and with stadium seating.
KaibaLand, owner Seto Kaiba. SO he was the one behind all this, taking him hostage and doing Ra knew what with Lapis. In anger, he cried out.
"Kaiba!" His voice echoed throughout the empty auditorium. "Kaiba, show yourself to me right now and tell me where is Lapis!"
Silence, then he heard click, click as though someone was walking towards him, hard-heeled boots on concrete. Looking above his chains, he spied Kaiba grinning down at him. "Good to see you too, Yami," he drawled, leaning over the steel railing.
"Where is she?," Yami repeated, bile rising in his throat as he watched Kaiba leap over the railing and land with a cat-like grace in front of him. The smug smile stayed in place as he looked at Yami kneeling there and it looked as though he wanted to laugh out loud. "Tell me where she is!," Yami demanded, unable to keep the fury from his voice any longer.
Kaiba was no longer grinning. He glared at Yami with contempt. "That's what I would like to know." Seeing the shock and confusion on his hostage's face, he continued. "When I put this plan together, I was after one thing, one goal. Do you really think you're deserving of such a gift as the lovely Lapis? Do you actually believe she would stay by your side?" Kaiba looked as though he wanted to spit. "You, a peasant by all accounts, are not worthy of a woman like that!"
"Perhaps…perhaps you are right, Kaiba." Yami fixed the slender boy with a steely stare. "Maybe I don't deserve Lapis. Maybe I am not worthy of her as you claim. But that still does not divert from the fact that I love her, that we love each other."
Kaiba scoffed. "What do you know about love? You know nothing."
"Where is she?," All this talk of Lapis was driving Yami mad.
"She's not here!," Kaiba suddenly yelled in utter frustration. "Those idiots, those..morons I sent blundered! I said I wanted the girl and got you instead! I didn't want you! I want, I need Lapis!"
Had Yami not been chained to the wall, he would have flown at the boy with all the fury and intensity of a wildcat. How dare Kaiba say he needed the one who brought so much joy to Yami's life? He was glad that Lapis was safe, anywhere away from the madman ranting before him was considered safe distance. Kaiba continued to vent his frustrations out about his goons' incompetence before finally composing himself. He stared at Yami as he paced shortly, the gears visibly turning as he plotted.
"Hmmm…maybe I can use you," he said, coming to a halt. "Yes, you could be useful to me, Yami. This…love…you speak of between you and my fighting flower…it could lure her here."
Kaiba was mainly speaking to himself, not caring if Yami heard or not. Chills ran down Yami's spine when he understood Kaiba's meaning and listened to him carry on. "Yes, of course! It's so simple!" Kaiba finally looked at him full in the face and gave the smile of a demon. "Like they say, Yami, you want something done right, do it yourself. She'll come to me." He stepped closer and laughed. "By using you, she'll come."