Let's see, any changes? Yeah, no not really, well except for that one spelling error, but I don't really think that counts. I do not own Yugioh, enjoy!
Chapter 2
"I mean first they insist that I go, and then they don't even bother to show up! Then I get a text from Ryou and Malik saying they need to cram for a test. Hello, we don't have any tests coming up this week. Uh, have you guys forgotten that we share the same classes? I think you might of, because we do! What was the point of going in the first place? I'd have much rather been at home, tending to the Shop or just chilling on the couch. Or catching up on sleep, that would have been pretty nice. But, no, instead I go to the park, where they don't show up but the bullies do. How is it that they always seem to be around whenever I'm alone? I swear they have a 'he's alone now' alarm on them or something. Can this day get any wor-woah!" Yugi was so busy talking at the thin air he didn't see the trash can until he was walking, err tripping, up on it.
"I don't care Kaiba, just see that it gets done!" a man yelled at another.
This man had star shaped hair; with blonde lightning streaks framing his face and going back into the jet black color of his hair, before brushing the crimson colored tips. His face was sharp and narrow with crimson eyes that just demanded to be paid attention to.
"You're talking about the school that most of us, including myself, attend Atem. I'm sorry, but I can't do that, it would be too much of a risk to allow something like this to happen." The other man responded back.
This man was tall and had a cold air about him. He had brown hair and sapphire blue eyes, which just seemed to glow with a strange icy hue to them. It only helped to fit with the already cold air he had around him.
"I don't care about the ri-. What's that noise?" Atem started to say before stiffening and standing up straight. He turned to look towards the entrance of the warehouse, as did everyone else in the room.
"I swear they have a 'he's alone now' alarm on them or something. Can this day get any wor-woah!" they heard someone say as they were walking past the entrance of the warehouse, before a loud noise filled the entire alley plus the area they were in.
Crash! Bang! Clatter! Thump! Groan…
Five out of the nine people there gasped when they heard the voice, before wincing when they heard the noise that followed. That was going to leave a nasty mark tomorrow, and this time Yugi wouldn't be lying when he said he tripped.
"Yugi." A boy with soft snow white hair and warm doe brown eyes whispered softly out. Unfortunately for him, Atem heard his voice, though not what was said.
"What was that Ryou?" Atem asked looking in his direction.
"Poor thing, it sounds like he's had a rough day, maybe we should cut him a break?" Ryou said though it sounded more like a question.
"Tch, yeah right. Bakura, Marik, Otogi, guard the doors in the back; make sure there aren't any more visitors in the area. I'm going to check on our little friend in the front." Atem said taking a gun out of the waist of his jeans, and heading towards the front of the warehouse.
"Atem, cousin, is this really necessary? I mean it sounds as if he's just passing through, taking a shortcut home even. Why make things even messier when they can just remain as simple as they are?" Kaiba asked him, bringing to a halt to look back questioningly at his cousin.
"Since when have you ever cared about anybody except that lot over there?" Atem asked nodding his head towards a pack of teenagers.
"I've always cared, I've just seen no reason to show it." he said back casually, like it was no big deal.
"Great, so don't do so this time either." Atem responded back before making his way out of the warehouse all together.
"You tried Kaiba, that's all we could have asked for." Ryou said quietly.
"It's not enough, we need to do something. We all swore that Yugi and Atem must never cross paths, they'd ruin each other. Jou! Malik! Use a side door, get him out of here!" Kaiba ordered towards two other males.
Both looked up at him, before nodding, and headed off to do their task. One had shaggy blonde hair and a rich color of honey for his shade of eye color. The other had jagged blonde hair and a light, but strong, violet color for his eyes.
Atem stuck his head out the warehouse doors before making his way to the left to see a boy just getting up off the asphalt. He quietly made his way up behind, before placing the gun right above him and pointing it down into his face. His eyes were closed so he didn't know he had a gun in his face, but he would as soon as Atem spoke up, that he was sure of.
"Ow. So talking, walking, and not looking where I'm going? Not such a good idea." Yugi said quietly, still unaware of the danger he was in.
Yugi started to get up, but before he could so much as really move into a sitting position a voice from right above him spoke up.
"Don't move or run, and I promise I won't shoot you where you lie." Atem said quietly at the boy, whose eyes immediately sprung open.
Yugi's eyes snapped open at the intimidating voice from above him. He was immediately met with the sight of a black revolver right between his eyes. Yugi wasn't going anywhere; he was too scared to move. Instead he just lay there staring at the gun, unaware that the person above him was staring at him.
Atem was astounded at this boy's beauty. When his eyes opened he couldn't help but stare at them as they seemed to draw him in, almost as if gravity was pulling him downward, even though he hadn't actually moved. By default this made him look at the rest of the boys face. He seemed to have pale skin like the white sands of a beach, a roses pink petal lips, and the color of amethyst gems for eyes. The boy was beautiful, so how was it possible for him to still be walking around in this neighborhood. Better yet, why had Atem never seen him before?
As soon as Yugi realized that the person above him was staring at him, and not really paying attention, he took a turn to look at him too. Though the minute his eyes connected with Atem's crimson ones, he kind of lost it, and screamed.
"D-D-D-DEMON! DEMON WITH A GUN! DEMON WITH A GUN!" Yugi screamed at the top of his lungs. And with Atem being in such a close space with him, the loud noises snapped him back, as well as cover his ears, therefore taking the gun away from Yugi's face.
As soon as the gun was no longer in Yugi's face he jumped up and ran past Atem, though he hadn't stopped screaming. As a result, everyone inside and outside of the warehouse knew his location including the bullies who were still pursuing him.
"DEMON WITH A GUN! THE DEMON HAS A GUN! HE HAS A- BULLIES! BULLIES! DEMON, BULLIES, DEMON, BULLIES, DE-LADDER!" Yugi ran around the corner only to come back a second later. He started to turn this way and that before noticing a ladder to the roof of the building right in front of him.
Quickly grabbing a hold of the ladder, Yugi shimmied his way up it, before rapidly climbing up it, and disappearing at the top. Not a moment too soon either, because the bullies rounded the corner to see the back a figure that looked strikingly similar to Yugi's. Without even seeing if it really was him first, because they were so annoyed at having to chase and then find him, Ushio just walked right up and punched him right in between his shoulder blades.
If this had been Yugi, he would have gone down with a grunt of pain, but this wasn't Yugi, this was Atem. They were kind of different in both strength and the amount of pain they could handle, as a result Ushio was quite surprised when, who he thought was Yugi, only stumbled a bit.
Atem felt a large fist punch him in the square of his back, and after losing the boy, he was kind of looking for someone to vent his anger on. The baka behind him seemed to be a good target, so without even a warning Atem spun around and shot his gun right between the large man's eyes.
The man fell to the ground, as Bakura and Marik took out the other two. All three shots rang out like sirens in the night, calling for everybody's attention. Though the only attention they seemed catch were the ones in the warehouse as they all came running out to see who was shot. Atem could almost see the relief on their faces as they saw that it wasn't the boy that had walked by earlier.
"Where's the kid Atem?" Bakura asked putting his gun away, Marik was doing the same.
"No idea, but he sure can scream can't he?" Atem said back with a small smirk gracing his features, as he too put his gun away.
"That he can. Well at least he won't have to worry about these bullies anymore, we've seen to that." Marik said leaning against the alley wall, and nudging one of the corpses with his feet.
"Indeed, but we do still have to find him. He intrigues me." Atem said seriously before whispering the last part out.
Yugi took deep breathes after jumping from that roof to his own. Just as he was getting his breathing back to normal, a gunshot followed by two more rang out in the silent night air. Yugi's thoughts immediately sprang to Ushio and his friends, and he couldn't help but feel as if it was his fault. Yeah sure they had picked on him for years, but that didn't mean he was heartless. He had led them down that alleyway, and now they were either dead or mortally wounded because of him.
Yugi sat on his roof in the chilly night air crying for an hour or two before working his way down to the sky light right above his bedroom, opened it, and slipped inside to land gently on his bed. Yugi wasn't feeling much of anything but a numbing sensation which he took gladly, and drifted off into a restless sleep. His dreams full of guns, red eyes, and dead bodies. It was easy to say that Yugi was anything but rested when he awoke for school the next morning.
Shoot, I was hoping to get the next chapter of tece up next week, but with Thanksgiving coming up it will be nearly impossible to do so. So we'll have to settle for it going up the first week of December, expect chapter 16 of tece then. And I saw Hunger Games: Catching Fire yesterday! It was incredible, despite the minor power shortage that made the entire theater gasp when the movie was cut at a really good scene, it was amazing! Everyone of you must go and see it! Anyway, thank you to everyone who are/have following/favorited this story. Also, thanks to everyone who reviewed Guest and User alike. Please review. Midnight ;p
