Magician: I'm BACK!
Yusei: I'm doomed.
Magician: Oh, hush you! At least I updated last week!
Yusei: *glaring, or at least trying to, and not realizing how adorable it makes him look*
Magician: *losing control* Awwwww! *glomps the poor, unsuspecting teen* You are just sssssooooo cute!
Yusei: *whimpers as tries to escape* Let me go! I need sleep!
Magician: *pouting as releases him* Oh, phooey! I guess it's not your fault you've not got much sleep recently…
Yusei: *relieved* Yes, that would be Jack's, and the small, insignificant fact that I'm pregnant! *note the heavy sarcasm*
Magician: You get cranky when you're tired! Tell you what, you do the disclaimer, and I'll let you rest until next chapter. Deal?
Yusei: Deal! Magician doesn't own Yu-Gi-Oh! DM/GX or 5D's, nor is she making any money off of this. Now if you will excuse me, I need sleep! *walks off muttering*
Magician: Enjoy!
Chapter Four: The Truth of the Matter
The garage was silent as they watched the small one flee up the stairs, tears streaming from his crystal eyes. All Jack could think as he watched Yusei stumble up the steps was, "How could I?" How could he have struck Yusei? All Yusei had done was tell the truth, and he had hurt the little one!
"Yusei," murmured Kiryu as he watched the boy climb up the steps. Crow too watched closely as the tears fell from their smallest member's eyes.
Turning on Jack, Kiryu and Crow started stalking towards him. However, he didn't move. He didn't even look up as thoughts of what he had just done flashed through his mind, images of the pain that contorted Yusei's beautiful face, and the fear that he had seen there as well. It wasn't until his collar was grabbed roughly that he was snapped out of his daze, only to meet the pair of furious gray eyes that belonged to Crow.
"How could you do that? It's Yusei! How could you hurt him?" Yelled the orange-haired teen as he shook the blonde in his grasp. Unable to meet Crow's eyes he tried to look to the side only to run in to an equally furious pair of golden eyes. Looking between the two Jack muttered, "I, I don't know. I didn't think, I never meant," he stuttered, unable to think clearly.
With a disgusted sigh Crow pushed the elder teen away from him. Knowing that if he staying within possible striking distance of the blond that he wouldn't hesitate to attempt a case of homicide, Crow turned around in an attempt to prevent himself when a loud 'smack' was heard. Spinning around he was met with the sight of Kiryu, hand raised and head down, shoulders heaving in barely-leashed rage as Jack put a hand up to his red, stinging cheek. Kiryu had just slapped him.
Looking up, the silver-haired teen hissed, "He was f***king crying! You made Yusei, the strongest, yet most fragile, of us cry! I don't care about the stupid runner, Yusei means the world to me, and look what you just did!"
Growling, Jack replied, fire glowing in his eyes, "I care for him too! I don't know what possessed me, alright! One moment I was listening to him explain the damage, and the next all I could feel was anger, then he was on the ground in pain!"
Stepping up to add his thoughts on the matter, Crow said, "You sure show an interesting way of caring for someone! I care for him too, and I sure as heck don't go hitting him to show that!"
To the shock of Kiryu and Crow, Jack dropped to his knees, tears slipping from the corners of his purple eyes. "I know, already, I know! If I could go back and stop it, I would! I'd kill myself before I let anything hurt him, and yet I hurt him worst of all!" He sobbed slightly, his guilt wrapping around in his chest, around his heart and lungs as over and over again the image or Yusei in pain repeated, like some sort of horror film. Covering his face, Jack whispered, "He'll never forgive me now!"
With a joint sigh Kiryu and Crow sank to their knees bedside him. Reaching over, Kiryu ran a gentle hand through the blonde's hair and Crow rubbed soothing circles on his back, causing the male to look up in surprise. With a small smile Kiryu reassured, "This is Yusei we're talking about. He will always forgive those he cares about. He forgave me after everything I did, to both him and everyone else. If he can both forgive and accept me, I'm sure that he can with you as well."
Looking up at Kiryu he smiled, a bit relieved. A shoulder-nudge from Crow later and he was feeling more like his old self. With a nod he stood up and told the other two, "I need to go talk to him."
He was rewarded with two smiles he turned and began the trek up the steps to Yusei's room. He'd never thought that hallway looked longer, and that included the time that he hadn't slept for around 48 hours and had finally been given a chance to go to bed. Reaching Yusei's door he hovered a moment before lightly knocking. When he didn't get a response he said, "Yusei, can I please talk to you? I want to apologize." When no response emerged from the room, a frown crossed Jacks face. Even at his maddest Yusei would have told him to go away. Turning the handle, Jack was met with a sight that froze his blood. The room was absolutely empty.
Turning around he skidded to the bathroom in the vain hope that maybe Yusei was there. When no Yusei was revealed, Jack panicked. Running as if the hounds of hell were chasing him he ran down the hall and steps, gaining curious looks from the other two. Once he reached the bottom he yelled, "Yusei's missing!" That went off like a bomb shell. Next thing he knew he was being bombarded by questions by Crow as Kiryu ran up the steps to check for himself, thoroughly scanning the entire apartment. When he came back down he shook his head, signaling that there was still no sign of Yusei.
Just at that moment Aki and the Twins walked in. "Hey, where's the fire?" Asked Rua with a smile he watched the three other males stop their mad dash. With a deep breath Crow responded, "Yusei's gone missing!"
All was silent before a startled "What!" Was yelled from the new arrivals in unison.
Summing up the situation in one quick blurb Crow replied, "Jack demolished Kiryu's runner, Kiryu got mad, Jack thought that a Yusei diagnostic would help, it didn't, Jack got mad and tried to punch Yusei in the stomach but he twisted at the last moment and took it to the back. There was enough power behind the punch that it drove Yusei to the floor and when he got up he ran outta here crying."
It was dead silent before a foreboding crackling was heard. One look at Aki and Jack wished he could run away. Her red hair was floating as her eyes were practically giving off sparks. "You hit Yusei?" With a timid nod Jack suddenly found himself slammed back against the wall as the enraged psychic stalked towards him. "You jerk!" She screeched, fists clenched I anger. "We have been torturing ourselves for months now, forcing ourselves to ignore him, crying as we saw how much pain it was causing him, but we did it to protect him! And then you come along and do this! How could you? We want to protect him, so maybe we should protect him from you!" Hissed Aki at the pinned blonde. However, her words enraged him at the thought of someone trying to separate him from Yusei. It had killed him inside to ignore Yusei, every time he was short with him, causing the small one to flinch, felt like a thousand daggers right through his heart. Jack had just opened his mouth to let lose an angry retort that just might have got him killed by the pissed off psychic when the door to the garage was thrown open and in came a very mad looking Zora.
Glaring at the entire room in general before turning on Crow, ignoring the girl with the floating hair and the blonde pinned to a wall by seemingly nothing she began to furiously pace at Crow, making him try to back away. Zora was having none of that. She backed him right into a literal corner before yelling, "Just what did you do to poor Yusei this time, hum? What could you have possibly done to make him jump?"
Ignoring her words and just trying to escape Crow yelled back, "Hey you old bird, it wasn't me this time! Jack did it!"
Narrowing her eyes at Crow she turned her angry gaze to the blonde, only just then seeing the glare that was on Aki's face as 'she' pinned the blonde against the wall. Like a raging bull Zora turned and stomped over to him and slapped him on the still-red cheek that Kiryu had taken his anger out on.
"What did I do?" Complained the blonde, unhappy at being teamed up on by not just one, but two angry females.
"You know perfectly well what you did! Now what I want to know is what it was that you did that caused that poor boy to jump!" Retorted Zora as she crossed her arms in anger. About to make some smart-alike retort he was abruptly cut off by Ruka as she asked, "What do you mean 'caused him to jump?"
Without removing her eyes from her prey Zora replied, "What caused Yusei to jump from the window sill, of course!"
That didn't go over well. After a moment of silence there was a sudden, massive wave of sound as everyone began to ask panicked questions at Zora. Finally taking her eyes off Jack she turned towards the assembled group of kids, "Don't worry, someone caught him. A rather unscrupulous fellow if I ever saw one, what with that scar and sheer bulk! Plucked the boy right out of the air as if he'd done it a thousand times before, that he did!"
Calming down a bit Aki asked hopefully, "So Yusei's alright?" Turning to the girl Zora smiled slightly, replying, "Yes child, at least he was when I last saw him." Crinkling his forehead in confusion Rua asked, "So where is he?"
Shrugging her shoulders as she began the track up the ramp Zora replied, "Who knows? The blue-haired man carried Yusei away with him. At least it didn't look like Yusei was upset at it." With that Zora rounded the corner and left the assembled group of teen very confused, and very worried.
Voicing the question that was running though everyone's mind as he was abruptly lowered form the wall, Jack asked, "So who's the man?"
No one knew the answer to that.
Magician: *smirking at the unsuspecting Yusei currently napping* Now that we've got that taken care of, time to make good on my threat!
Crescent: Which one? You keep threatening the poor, innocent little thing that it's hard to keep up!
Magician: Well, let's just say it's time for me to go shopping for ribbon! *skips off humming a Christmas tune*
Crescent: You have to feel sorry for Yusei with her writing his future! Just being her friend is stressful enough! *sweatdrop* Anyways, Magician is going to be busy for the next week with unpacking and exams so she asked me to post this chapter for her. However, I won't play her and threaten Yusei, he just looks tooooo adorable! *comes pretty close to glomping him*
So, PLEASE REVIEW, and if you do I'll try to make Magician hold off with the ribbon! Or at least not stress Yusei out with it! :)
Yusei: *mumbles as wakes up* Don't forget to thank Sakura! *rolls back over and falls asleep once more*
Crescent: Oh, right! So that's what Magician was going off about. Sakura, Magician would love to send out a large shoutout for all your wonderful support :) And, if Yusei wasn't asleep, he would tell you how thankful he is for your protection!