Chapter 4
Yugi woke up in the hospital infirmary, feeling slightly groggy, but much healthier. "What happened last night? What could've caused that?" Minerva was standing over his bed.
"Yugi..." she said to him, "I've been wondering, why didn't you tell me that you have diabetes?"
"Well... it's not that easy to talk about..." he said nervously. Then a thought jumped into his head, "How did you find that out, anyway?"
"The healers told me," she smiled. "You know how to give yourself insulin, right?"
"Of course." he replied, smiling back.
"Well..." said Minerva, "The healers said that you're ready to go home, I can check you out anytime."
"Okay..." Yugi's mind began to wander off. "Oh, how badly I wish he was here... I bet that he would've loved to meet my friends... Oh, why did he have to leave me..." He tried to push it out of his mind. He knew that thinking about it would just make him depressed...
Yugi arrived home and went up to his room to sulk. "Why... why... why did he have to go?" To make things worse, he thought that he saw Anzu holding hands with Jake! "I liked her first! Then you come along and ruin it!" After a while of wallowing in sadness, he felt well enough to socialize with his friends.
"Hey, guys."
"Hi, Yugi," said Minerva, "I have something to ask you."
"What is it?"
"Who's Masami?" she asked.
"H-how d-do y-you kn-know th-that n-name?" Tears began to well up in Yugi's eyes.
"You were muttering that name while you were unconscious."
At this point, Yugi couldn't pretend anymore and began to sob.
"What's wrong?"
"Masami was my brother!" he cried.
A soft gasp escaped from Minerva's mouth. "I didn't know that you had a brother..."
"Neither did I," stated Anzu.
"None of us did," Jonouchi chimed in, "Why didn't tell us about this?"
Yugi continued to sob uncontrollably, "He was my best friend growing up," he told them, "Even though he was nine years older than me, we were still inseparable. I could depend on him for anything, until..."
"Until what?"
"Until I was six years old, when he died after being hit by a car!" he exclaimed, "Nii-chan was my very best friend in the whole world, and now he's dead! And I'll never see him again!"
"That may not be necessarily true..." Minerva said softly.
"What do you mean by that?"
"The body may die, but the soul lives forever. But new bodies can be also created to house a soul..."
"Really? Is it actually possible for someone to come back from the dead?"
She nodded, "It's been done before in this world..."
"I kinda feel like I need some fresh air, is it okay if I walk down to the park?" Yugi asked.
"I guess so," replied Minerva, "Just be careful, and be sure to come home before it gets dark..." She tried not to worry too much, "He'll be fine! You can trust him!" she thought to herself. Despite this, she couldn't help but feel apprehensive...
When he finally arrived at Bluewater Creek Park, Yugi felt completely exhausted. "It didn't seem like that far of a walk, but that really wore me out!" he thought to himself, "I probably should just lie down for a bit..." He layed down underneath a tree and fell asleep almost instantly.
"Where's Yugi?" asked Ryou, "I haven't seen him all evening..."
Minerva slowly rose from her nap on the sofa, "Oh yeah, he went down to the park, he'll be back soon."
"Really?" Ryou responded with a touch of concern in his voice, "Because it's past ten o'clock, it's gotten pretty dark out..."
"Oh crap!" Minerva jumped up off the couch, "I better go get him!"
"Can I come with you?" asked Ryou, "I've got a bad feeling about this..."
They hopped into Minerva's car and drove as fast as legally possible to Bluewater Creek Park, parked it, pulled out their flashlights, and began frantically searching for Yugi.
"Yugi!" Minerva called out, but to no response. As she was running across the creek bridge, out of the corner of her left eye, she noticed something floating in the water. She pointed her flashlight at the object and screamed when she realized that it was the bloody corpse of a young boy! "Oh god, no! Now I really need to find Yugi fast!"
Then, she heard some evil chuckling in the dark distance, a voice that she instantly recognized and feared. She knew that she needed to get a closer look. "Eagle Eye, take my sight into the darkness..." she called out in her mind. Her vision became like that of a flying bird that searched through the darkness. She soon saw a little boy kneeling on the ground before a shadowy figure, with a blue light flowing from the child's body into the other person's body. As the blue light faded, a purple light appeared in the shadowy man's hand, which made a swift motion across the boy's body, and the kid fell to the ground.
"Oh fuck!" Minerva ran into the darkness and found the child lying dead in the grass in his own blood, with a deep slash wound across his throat. She heard the evil laughter again, looked up, and realized that the shadowy man was Yami! She got up off her knees and fired a small mass of magic energy at him. Right as it was coming at him, he turned around and blocked the shot with his arm.
"You're a little slow there, Minerva."
"I'll have your head on a stick! I swear to god!"
"Oh really? Well, let's just see you try!"
She fired another shot at him, which he sent flying back at her, that she managed to dodge. She fired two more shots at him, the first one he managed to evade, the second one hit him in the chest and knocked him down.
"I've had enough fun for now..." he thought to himself, body stricken with pain, "I'll let my host suffer in my place for a while..."
"Angelia," Minerva called out in her mind, "Come to me, and grant me your power" A sword with a blade that appeared to be made out of purple crystal appeared in her hand, she was going to slay the demon tonight! She walked over towards him and realized why she couldn't kill him yet.
"Yugi!" she cried, seeing her friend lying on the ground unconscious. She ran over to his side, just as Ryou was running over towards them.
"Oh, thank god you found him!" he exclaimed, "I found a kid dead in the creek! I was afraid that Yugi could've been murdered!"
Yugi slowly rose to consciousness, "Where... am I..." he asked, "How did I... get here..."
"Doesn't matter right now," she replied with a warm smile on her face, "All that matters right now is that you're safe. Now let's get you home..."
Yugi woke up the next day feeling absolutely awful. He felt sick to his stomach, had a horrible headache, felt so weak that he could barely sit up, and felt awfully cold, regardless of how many comforters were piled up on top of him.
Anzu came into his room, walked up to him, and said, "Geez, Yugi! You look horrible!"
"Really? 'Cause I feel horrible," he replied.
"That sucks," she said, "By the way, what's with all the blankets?"
"I need them because I'm absolutely freezing!" he said.
She pressed the back of her hand against his face, "You feel awfully feverish, I think you've come down with the flu."
"Well, great! This is just great!" he thought.
She walked out of the room, and he closed his eyes tried to sleep. Then, he heard some more footsteps near him
"Have you been drinking plenty of water little bro?" an familiar voice spoke to him.
"Can it really be?" Yugi thought to himself, "No, I'm probably just hallucinating..."
Then he looked up, and saw someone he never thought he'd see again...
