It didn't take long to reach the game shop that Yugi lived at. As soon as they got there Seto looked back at Yugi hoping that the boy would at least be able to make it into the shop, but he had his eyes closed and didn't react to anything that Seto said. He jumped out of the car and rushed into the building. There was no one anywhere to be seen. "Is anyone here?" he called.
An old man came out of the back room with a welcoming smile. "I apologize sir," he said, "but we're closed at the moment."
"Are you Yugi's grandfather?" asked Seto.
"Yes I am," said the old man confusedly. "Is there something wrong."
Seto felt relief flood him as he heard those words. Yugi said that his grandfather had been the one to change him. That meant that this man would know about Yugi's condition and where the blood was. "He needs blood," Seto said.
"Excuse me?" asked the old man a little taken aback. Seto could tell that the man was trying to avoid the subject as though it never existed.
"He needs blood," he repeated. "He's unconscious and he needs blood."
"Where's my son?" The old man's smile fell off his face and he gave a serious look.
"He needs blood," Seto repeated this time.
The old man didn't say anything this time. He ran into the back room and came back with an armful of bags of blood. He refused to give any to Seto and instead demanded that he be taken to see Yugi. Seto didn't complain. He just took the man to his car, which was still parked on the side of the road in front of the store. He opened the door for the old man who slid into the seat next to Yugi. Yugi didn't even flinch at the movement.
Using a knife hidden in his overalls, the old man cut open the corner of one of the bags and slowly lifted it so that the blood dripped into Yugi's slightly open mouth. Seto wanted to complain about the blood that slid over Yugi's motionless lips and onto the leather seats of his very expensive car, but right now the only thing he could concentrate on is how enticing Yugi looked with blood dripping down the side of his face. He was aware of how sick that sounded, but he figured it had something to do with his new behavioral instincts.
Yugi's eyes snapped open suddenly and he ripped the bag away from his grandfather to gulp it down much quicker than before. His grandpa was just barely able to get out of the car as Yugi grabbed another one of the bags that were left on the seat next to him. He was so hungry, and nothing was sating his hunger. He needed more. He needed more. He needed more. The bags were gone. There was no more. He needed more. He needed more. He could smell it. There was more nearby. He looked up and saw the source of the smell. A human stood before him. He needed more.
Yugi lunged forward to latch onto the neck of his own grandfather only to have a relatively strong arm wrapped around his waist and pull him into the air. Yugi struggled and almost broke free several times, but the arms held firm against him. He gasped when he felt teeth sink into his neck and he felt some of the blood that he had just drank slip out of him and with it his uncontrollable desire to consume more of the substance that kept him alive.
Coming to his senses, Yugi realized just who he had been trying to attack. An overwhelming guilt filled his whole body and he broke free of Seto's arm to run up to his room and slip under his bed so that he could cry his eyes out.
"Are you human?" Seto asked as he looked away from the door that Yugi had retreated through and back at the man that Yugi had tried to attack. Normally he wouldn't have thought much of it since he drank Yugi's blood when he was on a feeding frenzy, but even he had tried to find human blood before he bit Yugi.
"Yes," the old man nodded.
"I thought that Yugi said his grandpa was the one that changed him."
"He was," the old man sighed. "Come with me and I will tell you everything that there is to know about what happened to Yugi."
Seto nodded and quietly followed the old man through the game shop and into the house behind it. He was lead into the living room where several pictures were spread across any available flat surface. Almost all of them had Yugi in them and most of those had another boy who looked like an older version of Yugi.
"His name was Atemu," the old man said as he picked up one of the pictures of the three of them together, "but Yugi always called him Yami. We told Yugi that he was his older brother and, being an innocent little boy, he believed it for the longest time. But then Yugi fell very ill. The doctors couldn't find a cure. They didn't know what to do."
"I'm sorry sir," one of the doctor's said, "but I don't think that your son will be able to survive this."
"You mean you can't find a cure?" I asked.
"We can't even figure out what is wrong with him sir," said the doctor. "I truly am sorry, but there is nothing that we can do."
That's when Atemu came back. He had only left for a little while to find food for the both of us and now that he was back he found me in my seat crying. "What's going on?" he asked.
"Dad," I cried. "They said that he won't make it."
Atemu tensed at the words. Even though he was really Yugi's grandfather he had really begun to think of him as his own younger brother. The only difference was that he still spoiled Yugi like a grandfather would do. It took him only a moment before he spoke again. "I can help him Solomon," he said cautiously, "but you know the price of that."
Perhaps it was selfish of me to think that I could decide what would happen to Yugi, but I chose to let Atemu do what he was going to do. We went into the room and I closed all of the blinds. I think the nurses thought that we just wanted time to say goodbye to Yugi, but the truth was that we couldn't let them see us while we saved his life.
"Hey," said Atemu as he shook Yugi awake. "It's time to wake up now my little Hikari."
Yugi woke slowly and with much difficulty. He was drugged so that he wouldn't be able to feel the pain that the sickness caused, but it made him very sleepy and almost incoherent even as Atemu spoke to him.
"I'm going to make all the pain go away," he said. "Would you like that my little Hikari."
Yugi nodded slowly before allowing his eyes to close and his body to drift back into sleep again. Atemu leaned over him and sunk his teeth deep into Yugi's shoulder. Nothing changed in Yugi and I didn't think it worked, but then I saw Atemu pull back with a smile of satisfaction and I knew that Yugi would be okay from now on.
"After that we explained everything to Yugi. We told him that Atemu was actually his grandfather and that he had been changed into a vampire just like Atemu. It took a while for him to come to terms with it, but when he did he made sure that he would never hurt anyone with his newfound power," Solomon finished.
"So you are actually his father?" asked Seto.
"Yes," answered Solomon. "I've just grown old while Yugi remains the same."
"I see," Seto nodded his head. "Well then I have a proposition for you."
"What would that be?" asked Solomon.
"If it's okay with Yugi, I want him to live with me," said Seto. "It would be better for us both. I need food that only he can give me and he won't try to attack you and suck out your blood."
"I won't make another decision for Yugi," said Solomon, "but if he is okay with it then I am okay with it on one condition."
"What is that?" asked Seto.
"You still come to visit me every once in a while," he laughed. "I will be so lonely without my little Yugi here."
"I am sure that we will be able to visit you," Seto agreed.
i hope you enjoyed this chapter. thank you for reading.
Unfortunately, i do not have the next chapter written so from this point on i will update whenever i finish a chapter, but i still enjoy any and all reviews.