AN: Sorry if the story started out kind of slow. It will get better with time, I promise.
Yusei woke up the next morning with a huge headache. It took him sometime to remember what had happened the previous night. Rudger was still alive and wanted to destroy him. Yusei could not help but to wonder why Kalin hung up last night when he called, needing his old friend the most. The shaken young man did not want to get out of bed. He did not have the desire or energy to.
About two hours went by and Yusei was still laying in his bed, daydreaming and starring at the wall. He felt terrible and what happened last night made him feel even worse. Yusei was about to drift back asleep, when there was a knock at the front door. He did not want to talk to anyone, but he had to. the tired boy pushed himself up and dragged his body to the front door. With a sigh, he opened the front door and was immediately filled with joy.
"Yusei, are you ok? My cell phone service went out in the middle of our call. What's wrong?" Kalin asked.
"Kalin!" Yusei throw his arms around Kalin and his eyes began to water. He had gone through so much emotional trauma since last night. Yusei realized he was hugging Kalin and quickly let go. He moved back to find with a very concern look on his old friend's face face. Yusei could see that mostly in his eyes.
"Yusei what's wrong? You're not acting like yourself. What happened last night?" Kalin wanted to hear the full story this time.
"Come on in. It's hard to explain." Yusei let Kalin in. The two started to walk over to the couch, when Yusei almost fell over with shots of pain suddenly hitting his right side. Kalin caught the younger man just in time and helped Yusei over to the couch.
"You look terrible. How long have you been sick?"
Yusei could barley even speak "Late last night, I took a walk..."
Kalin carried Yusei up to his room. Once inside, Kalin laid him on his bed and put a cold towel on Yusei's feverish forehead. But, the only pain he really felt was still in his right side. Yusei simply laid in his pain and Kalin sat on the floor besides him.
"What happened to him? I've never seen Yusei so sick before. Was that the reason why he called me last night? But, why me?" Kalin quietly spoke to himself. Suddenly, Yusei started to shack "Yusei, you ok?"
"No! Rudger, get a way from me!" Yusei sat up screaming, frightening his friend.
"Yusei, calm down." Kalin tried to help him, but nothing seemed to work. Yusei kept screaming the same thing over and over again. After a few minutes, he did finally calm down. Yusei pulled himself up, so he was eye to eye with Kalin.
"Kalin, Rudger is back and he wants to kill me." Kalin heard Yusei speak in his darkest tone. After that moment, Yusei fell back on his bed and drifted to sleep. Kalin felt a cold shock run through him. He desperately tried to believe that what Yusei said was not true. His friend was just sick and having nightmares.
Kalin got up and sat in Yusei's bathroom. He felt like he was going to throw up. No one knew about Rudger and Kalin's time spent together as Dark Signers. Just thinking about that past made him feel sick. He kept the door open and looked at Yusei, until he was the one falling asleep.