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K.C.: If you have any questions about me, I will try to answer without spoiling the story.
Me: Enjoy!
Yami just sat there, having the questions run through his head until he hears a door open downstairs.
Footsteps go up the stairs until the door to the room opens. Yugi goes inside and finds Yami sitting on a chair, staring at a sleeping K.C.
Yugi taps his friend's shoulder and Yami looks up to him, "What is it?"
Yugi's eyes are filled with worry, "Are you ok? You look distance."
Yami nodded, "Yes… I'm fine but…"
Yugi smiles and pats Yami's back, "It's alright, let her sleep. Grandpa is making dinner."
"I'll get down there soon… don't wait for me."
Yugi rolled his eyes and went back downstairs.
Yami sighs and gets off the chair. That little girl… who was she?
He leaves the room.
K.C.'s eyes flutter open and she meets the darkness. She sits up and looks at the door. She sighs and lies back down.
Her eyes stay wide open. I fell asleep again… Why did I sleep? I haven't slept in forever and now…
She sighs once again and buries her face in a pillow. Why? Why doesn't he remember?
…Femi…
Why… why did you go… why did you leave me cold and alone…?
Why…
You loved me…
I loved you…
Now you love someone who is the complete opposite of me.
Tears, yet again, try to force themselves out. But K.C., yet again, forces them not to fall.
K.C.'s heart thumped really hard. She clutches her chest and sits up quickly. Her heart is aching. Why is it aching?
Sweat dribbles down her forehead, as her breathes turn into laboring pants. She clutches her chest and tries to calm her hurting heart.
Back downstairs, Yami is staring at his food. The questions never left, but flashes of that little girl still remand.
Yami pushed his chair back and mumbled, "Not hungry…" he goes back upstairs to his room. But on the other side on the door, he could hear laboring pants.
He opens the door slightly and peeks in, "K.C.? Are you awake?"
K.C. glances over to him, her cheeks flushed, her face wet, her hand clutching her chest. A pained look was filling her eyes.
Yami closed the door behind him and went up to K.C. He rested the back of his hand on the girl's forehead.
"You're warm…" he said.
Warm? I sure don't feel warm…
Yami lightly pushed K.C. back on the bed, "You have a fever. You need to stay in bed and rest."
K.C. glared at him. "I… have no time… for rest…" she panted. Yami smiled slightly and laughed softly.
"It'll just be a few days." He said, "It's a shame you can't go to your second day of school tomorrow."
Yami leaned over and kissed K.C.'s forehead. K.C. tries not to blush.
"I'll be sleeping on the couch. Get well soon." Yami leaves the room and goes downstairs.
Yugi is in the kitchen cleaning dishes and Grandpa must've gone to bed. Yami goes over to Yugi and takes the plate from his hands.
Yugi glares at him, "You mind? I'm trying to clean here."
Yami looks at him with a blank expression, "Yugi, I'll do the rest of the dishes. You better go to bed; I'm going to sleep down here."
Yugi blinked and nodded, "Ok then?"
The next morning, Yami wakes up on the couch. He tries to get up, but a pain in his back staggers him.
He cracks his back in pain and got up. He went upstairs and opened the door. Yugi was fully dressed for school.
But when Yami looked over to his bed, K.C. was gone. He hears a door open near him and in the corner of his eye; the dark brunette was up and dressed.
Yami turns to her and feels her forehead. Her head wasn't warm anymore. How odd.
K.C. looked up to Yami with a blank expression, "What are you doing?"
Yami drops his hand, "I thought you had a fever. How odd."
K.C. just stared at him.
Yugi, Yami and K.C. have finished getting ready and grabbed their bags. They walk down the streets to their school.
After Home Room and Japanese class, Yami and the others dive into their next class: PE. The lesson? Kendo. Since K.C. wasn't here for the normal instructions, the teacher thought she could sit out.
But K.C. didn't take no for an answer.
As the class started, the teacher picks two by two to face each other in a same battle.
Next up was K.C. vs. Téa.
The two put on their Bogu armor (A black kimono) and stood in the middle of the gym. The teacher stood in-between the two girls and raised his hands. "Taito."
Téa and K.C. grip their Tsuba's with their left hands and draws them out. They clutch their swords with both hands in front of them.
They put down their masks to shield their faces from the impact of the Tsuba. They teacher glances between the two then steps back a bit. "Iku!"
Téa charges at K.C. with sheer speed and strength. K.C., in impossible speed, blocked the charge.
Téa jumps back and glares at K.C. with pure anger. K.C. just stood there with a blank expression.
Téa tried to make an impact with K.C.'s head, but K.C. merely blocked the sword. Téa started to get frustrated. How was K.C. just standing there and blocking?
Before Téa could move, K.C. was behind her and she made a blow to Téa's head. "Teishi!"
K.C. stepped back and puts her Tsuba in her belt. Téa growled at K.C.
The teacher signals the duo to go back to their positions. He raised his hands, "Round two. Taito!"
The two take out their weapons. "… Iku!"
They charge at the same time and their Tsuba's collided. Téa tried to phase out K.C. with a false move, but K.C. blocked it with her hand accidently.
"Teishi!"
K.C.'s hand was bruised from the attack, but she didn't show pain or despair that she lost the second round.
They were both tied up. The teacher signals them to go back to their positions and raised his hands yet again. "… Iku!"
Téa started pulling full force on K.C. K.C. blocked the attacks as much as she can. Téa's anger was getting the best of her.
She was slamming her sword onto K.C.'s Tsuba. K.C. knew that her fear would show. She didn't want to hurt Téa.
Téa continued trying to land a fatal blow onto K.C.
K.C. felt some sweat dribble down her forehead.
It's not hot enough for her to sweat. She can't really sweat because of the heat in Egypt.
So she must be showing her fear. Oh no.
K.C. glared at Téa as she landed another hit on the black sword. K.C. pivots to the right, away from Téa.
K.C.'s heart starts to pound. K.C. shivered. It's so… cold…
Why was it cold? She was sweating. But that's fear.
K.C. felt a sharp pain in her chest. It felt like as if someone stabbed her right in the heart.
A warm liquid drips from the side of her forehead. She ignores it and tries to land at least one hit on Téa.
But K.C.'s eyesight started blurring, and the pain was getting more and more unbearable.
Téa was about to land a giant blow to the side of K.C.'s head, but K.C. pivoted and jabbed Téa in the back.
"Teishi!"
K.C. sighs. Téa took off her mask and glared daggers caked in venom at K.C.
A hand rests on K.C.'s shoulder and glanced over to see Ryou. He smiled sweetly at her, "Good job. That battle was intense."
K.C. frowned more and took her mask off. Yugi and the others congratulated Téa on being so close of beating K.C., but at least she tried.
When K.C. took off her mask, the warm liquid fell to the ground with a very faint sploosh.
K.C. looked down and saw a tiny red dot. Ryou notices the dot and looked at K.C's face and gasps at the streams of blood dripping off of K.C.'s head.
K.C. blinked, "What?" She felt her face and some of the red liquid rests on her finger tips. She stares at her hand.
Ryou takes K.C.'s other, "You need to go to the nurse's office!"
K.C. shook him off, "No. I'm fine." K.C.'s eyesight may be blurry, and her head and chest felt like they were shot, but she won't give up that easily.
She turned her back on Ryou and left the gym.
Yami notices this and goes up to Ryou, asking, "What's wrong?"
"… K.C.'s head is hurt, but she refuses to go to the nurse's office."
Yami's eyebrows furrow, "I'll see what I can do."
Yami leaves the gym and starts searching for K.C. After about a minute or two, he fines K.C. at a water fountain with a white piece of cloth.
He taps her shoulder lightly and she snaps her head towards him. She stared at him blankly, "What do you want?"
"Are you alright?" he asked, "Why don't you go to the nurse's office?"
K.C. just glared at him, "I'm not letting some person just to clean my battle wounds from war, I cleanse them myself."
Yami sighed, took the piece of cloth from her and lets it wetten from the water fountain.
"What are you-" Yami starts to rub K.C.'s head gently with the cloth. K.C.'s eyes widened and a blush tries to dust her face.
Yami finished cleaning the wound off and smiled at K.C.
"Why don't you smile?"
K.C. blinked and looked down to the ground, averting his eyes. "I hate smiling." She lied.
Yami frowned, "Can you at least smile once? For me?"
K.C.'s eyes flash red, "Don't order me!"
Yami stepped back in surprise, "But I-"
K.C. wrapped her hand around his throat, "I'm not listening to you. I know you are really a fake."
Fake? What?
K.C. let's go and covers her mouth. A painful cough escapes her mouth.
"Are you Ok?"
K.C. fell to her knees and clutched her mouth. Her coughs started to sound worse.
Yami took her hand and picked her up to her feet. He wraps an arm around her waist and takes her to the nurse's office.
The nurse signs K.C. and Yami out and calls Solomon about the problem act hand. Why was Yami going with K.C.? He got a little stubborn and said that he is going to take care of her at home.
Solomon would be busy in the shop, so it's the least he can do.
After a bit of walking, the duo finally gets home. Yami sets K.C. down on his bed and felt her forehead. Geez! Her head felt hotter than Egypt itself!
He took an icepack from the freezer and placed it on her head. He took a thermometer and slides it into her mouth.
The red mercury rises up and the thermometer was fully red. Yami took it out and covered K.C. with a blanket.
After a few minutes, K.C. fell asleep. Yami stared at her in worry. And confusion. What did she mean by fake?
Yami needed to go back into her soul room. Maybe he'll find some answers…
He closed his eyes and found himself in front of the five doors. He goes over to the gold door, which was more tattered than last time.
He peeked inside and found the little girl again. Her back was against him. He cleared his throat, "Hello again."
The little girl turned to him and he gasped. Blood was pouring from her forehead, making pools of red on the ground.
Tears streamed from her eyes, "It hurts Femi… It hurts…"
Yami walked up to her and kneeled. He wiped a bit of blood of with his sleeve. The child sniffled, "I don't wanna be here anymore…"
Yami looked her in the eyes and tried to smile. But couldn't. This sight seemed so familiar. He didn't know what.
"I know… I'm sorry. What happened?"
She rubbed her eyes, "T-the monsters tried to eat me…"
"Monsters?"
The things that attacks you…"
Yami sighed in sorrow, "I'm very sorry… I opened one of the doors and-"
"It wasn't your fault."
Yami looked at her in confusion. "I was scared, angry, sad… and a little crazy… all at the same time somehow. Then the monster attacked me as punishment…"
"Why do they attack you?"
"… When I feel sad, or I let tears drop, a monster with sad blue eyes attacks me. When I'm angry, a monster with mad red eyes with infinite swirls attacks. Scared, a monster with blank red eyes attacks me…"
She grows quiet.
"… What's the fourth one?"
She stays quiet, "… I can't… speak of it…"
She looks up at Yami and smiles, "Do you want to play with me?"
Yami was caught off guard with that question. He sighed and shook his head, "I have to go. I might not come back here again."
She frowned and said, "If you're going to leave me forever… I guess you are a fake Femi…"
The wall starts shaking and they crumble, except a chunk that the kid was standing on.
Yami fell down to the black abyss.
He snapped his eyes open and found himself back again. He sighs, 'Why me?'
Me: Yami is a dick to children.
K.C.: Téa is a dick to me.
Me: Téa, OOC.
K.C.: Yep.
Me: Sorry if it's short. Don't flame or complain. Read and Review~