Kry: So this was Chapter Seven,
I am still looking for a Beta if anyone is interested.
Oh and I don't Own YuGiOh in any way shape or form just so everyone knows that.
No major warnings for this chapter, Just the self-harm topic.
Kyrri's P.O.V.
It was the middle of lunch before Yugi made his appearance back at school. Jou, Ryou and I had already gotten our food and were halfway through eating when he ran to the table looking really distant and out of breath.
" There you are Yug, what took ya so long bud?" Jou asked around a mouthful of nachos, I made a face at his table manners but laughed a little anyway. Yugi just shrugged his shoulders and looked at his hands. He seemed to be lost in very deep thoughts, I watched him as he raised his head and opened his mouth to talk only to close his mouth and drop his head again several times. Jou watched him too, looking worried but didn't say anything.
" Kyrri may I take a picture of your bracelet so that I can send it to my Jii-Chan, please? He is an Egyptologist and an archeologist so he might have more information about it that we do." I thought about it, his request was simple enough and I was interested in his grandfather's profession seeing as Egypt was one of my favorite subjects before and one that I found myself painting often.
I passed my wrist out careful to only pull my sleeve up just enough to see the bracelet as he struggled with the camera on his phone. I raised an eyebrow as Jou took the phone snapped the picture and handed it back to Yugi instructing him how to send the picture in a message, for the King of Games he sure was technologically inept.
" What did Kaiba want this morning?" Ryou asked as he began to pick food off of my lunch tray again. I looked back and forth between Ryou and Yugi surprised and waited for Yugi to answer his question. After a moment Yugi shrugged and leaned an elbow on the table resting his head on his hand.
" What else would he want but another rematch," he said casually while looking bored. I smiled as Jou laughed with food in his mouth making Ryou gag on the nacho he had taken off of my plate. Seeing his disgusted face I started to laugh loudly, Jou laughed harder and Yugi and Ryou cracked smiles of their own. I was incredibly grateful for these boys. My friends.
Once we all calmed down and began eating again everyone settled into a comfortable silence. It seemed like everyone had something on their minds today and I wasn't left out of that. I sat quietly thinking as I nibbled on my lunch. The more I sat there thinking the less I wanted to eat and eventually ended up pushing my food to Ryou. He eyed me skeptically.
" I'm just not really that hungry today," I said as I sulked in my own little world. It seemed like without the mindless chatter of my new friends that my thoughts would drift into dangerous territory and I lost my cheerful demeanor.
I found myself wondering about the dreams I've had most of m life in an attempt to stop from thinking about the shit show my life currently was. For as long as I could remember I'd been dreaming of Egypt when I was little I had even seriously thought the people from my dreams were real. My parents had worried about me, especially when I told them about the magical creatures that I could summon and how I was a princess.
At first they simply thought my imagination had gotten away from me but eventually, they realized I was too involved in my fantasies. I could clearly remember a time when I had told them they weren't my real parents and one day my real dad would come and take me away. Of course, I had been talking about my dream father, and I had been five at the time. For some reason, this caused a lot of tension between my parents and my mother's depression started getting worse.
I didn't understand it until after she died. When she committed suicide my father was devastated. Frequently he would threaten to send me away. At her funeral, which I was too young to understand I heard the other family members whispering about me, about my mom. Even though I had known I shouldn't be listening I did anyways and what I heard them say didn't even make sense until I was older.
I ended up asking my dad when I was about twelve years old what they meant. He was livid and had screamed and slapped me across the face. But he had explained it later. He told me when my mother was sixteen she sneaked out of her parents home to go to a party. She was young and she was dumb. She got drunk, and she woke up in a strange place barely dressed.
Even at the age of twelve, I understood the implications. He continued to tell me he loved my mother, even then. They had been childhood sweethearts. He promised to marry her and to help her. He committed to being my father even though he had never been.
My dad then told me to get out of his sight and feel grateful he hadn't abandoned me when she died. He told me it was because he loved me. He would never abandon me. It was the only reason I was still with him today. He hadn't abandoned me when I needed him, how could I abandon him while he needed me.
Determined to distract myself I raised my eyes up to Yugi who sat across from me next to Jou. He was still lost in his thoughts as well with a very concentrated look on his face. His eyes were narrowed and his four-head scrunched up as he thought. No one seemed to be paying him any mind as he mulled over his thoughts, perhaps he needed a distraction as well.
" Are you not hungry either Yugi? I'm sure you and Ryou could share my nacho's I you wanted." I said smiling at him, he looked up at me surprised; eyes wide.
" Like hell, I would share with him!" Ryou yelled glaring at our friend. I gave him a look but didn't say anything because Yugi just kept staring at me. I smiled back for a moment until I started to become uncomfortable.
He looked me right in the eyes like he had never really looked at me and was seeing me for the first time. I hated being stared at like that like someone could see under my mask and into my soul. I wanted to drop my gaze and look away but I found I couldn't. Right now Yugi held this authority in his eyes, so I just sat there gazing into his crimson orbs. Somehow I felt like I had done this before, why were his eyes so familiar to me?
Finally, I was able to tear my gaze away and to my hands clasped on the top of the table. I could feel my heart beating too fast, and my palms were sweaty. Why was I so afraid all of the sudden? I sat for the rest of lunch in silence unable to make eye contact with anyone else.
Everyone tried to talk to me but eventually, it seemed like they all gave up and quietly finished their lunch as well. Soon the bell rang relieving me from my thoughts. Instead of waiting to say goodbye to anyone or taking my tray to the trash I jumped up and ran from the lunchroom. I could hear Jou behind me call my name, but I continued to run. that's all I was good at, after all, was running away.
I stopped at my locker and grabbed my books and headed straight to Zoology. Today we were watching a documentary called Love: the human language, it talked about the science of love and the chemicals that make humans grow attachments and bonds.
I tried to pay attention but I just kept telling myself that it was pointless, no one would ever love me anyways. The movie made me sad, so eventually, I just turned my gaze outside the large window and watched the breeze roll through the leaves of the cherry blossom trees.
Soon enough my torture was ended as the bell rang. I jumped in my seat and grabbed my unused textbook but walked slowly to my history class. I was getting more and more nervous as each class passed.
Soon school would be over and then I would go to work. That would provide a good distraction but all too soon that would end too and I would have to go home. There I would find nothing but pain, either from being terrified that my father comes home or finding that he was indeed home already. All I wanted to do was run away and hide, only one more year and I would be graduating and then I could leave forever. If only Japanese schools didn't run all year round.
I realized suddenly that I was already in history and it was halfway through class. I had no I idea what the teacher was lecturing on and hadn't even opened my textbook. I had been so lost in my thoughts that I just ran on auto-pilot. I shook my head and tried to focus the last half of the class even taking notes about ancient warships and weaponry, it was a topic that actually helps no interest to me but I was nothing if not the diligent student when I wasn't sulking in my own world.
The bell rang and I walked even slower this time. I just didn't want the day to be passing as quickly as it was. When a hand grabbed my wrist and spun me around I was ready to yell but stopped when I saw that it was Ryou, his expression serious.
" Are you okay?" he asked, like always sounding like it was a struggle for him to be sociable like he was trying to be. I nodded and tried to smile but it must not have reached my eyes because he frowned and turned around dragging me slowly behind him as he headed down the hall. He hung a right and brought me into a slightly less crowded hallway. We continued down to the end of the hall where a door with a 'DO NOT ENTER' sign clearly printed across.
I eyed him skeptically and jerked my hand out of his grasp making my wrist hurt. He turned as I stood rubbing my wrist tenderly, this, in turn, made him eye me skeptically but he kept his comments to himself as he pushed the door open.
" I don't think we should be here," I said nervously as he began walking up a darkened flight of stairs that was behind the door. Ryou turned to me with a mischievous grin and laughed. It was nice to hear him laugh, he was always so serious and gloomy.
" Rules are made to be broken." Was his reply and so I followed him up the stairs, maybe time would pass slower if I had someone to talk to instead of listening to a teacher go on and on about comma placement and other grammar things.
Once we reached the top of the stairs and opened one more door I realized we were going to the roof. I shielded my face from the brightness of the afternoon sun until I could see. Then we walked to the center and sat down, I didn't talk and neither did he, but even though I just wanted to talk minutes ago suddenly I realized that it was just as comfortable to just sit with Ryou.
" Can I see?"
I cracked my eyes open at him as I had closed them soaking up the sun on my skin. He was staring at my arms and this made me tense up. Even if I had shown him this morning it was still terrifying to be so open with another person. After a few minutes of chewing my lip I finally raised my arm out to him and let him gently roll up my sleeve, he sucked in a breath just like he had before. I looked away, I didn't want to see my fuck ups but when he started to run one finger over each cut and scar I flinched. No one had ever purposely touched me in a way that wasn't painful, there was nothing romantic about his touch. It just wasn't what I was used to.
" These are old right?" he asked and I nodded not needing to look to know, it didn't hurt when he touched these. Then his hands drifted over newer ones some even from last night when I had woken up in the middle of the night from a nightmare.
" And these are fresh..." he almost whispered. This time I looked up at him, the look on his face as he stared at my imperfections had me pause. There was just something about that sad look that struck a chord in me. Everything inside me was screaming at me that I was missing something, forgetting something but no matter how hard I tried I couldn't place what was causing me to feel this way around Ryou and Yugi.
" What are you thinking?" I dared to question in a voice so small I wasn't sure he had heard me at all until he looked up and into my eyes. He seemed to take a while to collect his thoughts before he took a long breath and brushed his bangs out of his face.
" That finding you like this is the last thing I wanted." My eyes widened and I frowned, what did he mean by that? I wasn't sure if I should be offended or not but he just looked so torn up inside that I didn't have the heart to say anything.
" Once a long time ago, there was a boy who watched not only his whole family but his entire village be slaughtered. The boy hid under a clay pot with a little crack in it watching all his friends and neighbors fall before his feet in pools of their own blood. He took that pain and he swallowed it, let it fester and bubble in his heart until it consumed him, but through every horrible deed, he committed there was always a light in his life. The boy had befriended a Princess, and she was like the sun, everything she shined on became beautiful; the boy especially. She was his best friend. But life was hard on him and the darkness in his heart grew had an agenda all its own. At the end of his life, he stood against his Princess. She had her family and her empire behind her and he had all the forces of darkness. He destroyed her, though he had never meant to... and she forgave him still. That still small part of him that the light still soaked into departed from the darkness then and sacrificed everything to save her in the only way he could. Though they bother died their souls were allowed to carry on..." I began listening to his story with much interest, I had never heard him speak so much at once. But as his words created a picture in my mind I found it harder to hear what he said.
My head started to pound as images flashed before my head, and feel like it was being split open. I slowly raised my hands to hold my aching head, little did I notice that my bracelet was starting to vibrate and grow warm.
It wasn't until Ryou snatched it from me that I could smell the searing flesh of my wrist. I jumped up, the pain in my head ten times worse and grabbed my wrist to my chest. It was too much, it was all just too much as the weight of all the flashes and all the memories swirled around in my mind. I stumbled around dizzy and confused until I reached the railing at the edge of the roof. I felt like I was going to be sick, I leaned over the rails to vomit when everything started to fade away...
Yami's POV
I sat impatiently in Yugi's last hour class ignoring the teachers babbling. Math was never really my thing and even with Yugi's knowledge I still wasn't good at it. So I sat there fidgeting, something just didn't feel right. I had given up on trying to get Yugi to talk to me, he was locked in his should room completely shut off from the world outside of the puzzle and have blocked his mind from me. I wished that he was here so that I could apologize to him for the cruel thing I said to him this morning.
The ball of nerves in my stomach grew tighter and tighter. I kept shifting around uneasily, tapping my fingers on the table or tapping my foot gaining the looks from my fellow students from time to time.
" Mr. Mouto is there somewhere else you would rather be?" asked the teacher as she looked down at me through her little smudgy glasses with one hand on her hip and the other still holding a piece of chalk to the board.
" I.. uh.." Was my brilliant response, just then I felt the definite shift of shadow magic. It was like a brick wall that hit me in the face. I stood knocking all my books to the floor and looked in the direction.
" Mouto!" cried my teacher as I grabbed my books up in one swift move and ran out of the room. I could hear her yell detention behind me but I could hardly care. Something did not feel right and I needed to get to the bottom of it quickly. I followed the familiar tug of magic until I reached the staircase to the roof. Swinging the door open I took the stairs two at a time. I jerked the back door open and blinked as the sun hit my eyes.
As soon as I could see I was horrified at what I saw. Kyrri wobbled over to the edge of the roof looking disoriented and with Bakura hot on her tail. She was gripping her head and she was as pale as a sheet, then so quickly I barely had time to react she crumpled forward. Bakura reached her first and swung himself over the edge to grab her. He was hanging on his midsection.
" Pharaoh help," he shouted without having to look at me. I wasted no time in running forward to grab his waist. I managed to stop them from falling further, but couldn't seem to pull them back up over the railing. I grunted and pulled harder, gaining only an inch in leeway. Somewhere in the distance, I could hear the bell ring to let out the last class.
" PULL HARDER DAMN IT." He screamed as I felt him begin to slip. " I can't hold her much longer..." He spoke quieter, in concentration. I could see sweat drip from his brow onto her stomach, with her shirt pushed up I could see the remnants of bruises littering the lightly tanned skin of her belly. The Yellow and Brown imperfections made me sick, these were old where had they come from?
It was then I heard the first scream from the students bellow leaving to go their respective homes. A girl, freshmen I think pointed upward and everyone's gazes followed. Students gathered in a large circle. Some looking terrified and others surprised, I was enraged to see some even thought it was funny and laughed at her misfortune.
" Yami please I'm going to drop her." He pleaded, using my given name for the first time, I had never seen him beg, never even heard him say please before. I turned my gaze to The Thief and focused, pulling with all my might. The look in his eyes was crazy and afraid. I felt tears slip from my eyes, I couldn't do this for much longer, the strain on Yugi's petite body was too much.
"YOU DROP MY SISTER AND I WILL KILL YOU" I screamed.
"You won't have too..." He barked back as he tried to get his other hand around her ankle. It was then that I felt Yugi's familiar presence as he wrapped his spiritual arms around me and pulled himself. He couldn't physically pull her, but his support was powerful and his faith in me gave me the strength to pull Bakura up until his feet touched the floor of the roof. I kept my grip and tried to help him pull her up.
"NOOOO!" He screamed and tried to lunge forward again. It was only my hold on his waist that kept him from following as her shoe slipped off and he lost his grip on her ankle.
"Kyrri!" I cried out as I quickly let go of the Tomb Robber and grabbed the rails to watch her plummet to the pavement below...
Seto's P.O.V.
I leaned back against the soft leather seat in the back of my limo typing furiously away on my silver laptop. I tried to stay focused as best I could but kept finding myself looking at the double doors to the place I hated the most. Domino High, a chapter in my life I was glad was over. I recalled earlier that day when I had ventured to this place.
I walked onto the campus of the school slowly, remembering walking the same path many times before. But had I ever actually looked? Sure I had noticed the large oak tree just off to the side of the front doors. But I had never sat under it before, never even touched the bark of the trunk.
This is where I found Yugi, or as I noticed actually Atem. The Pharaoh, my former best friend and my rival. He leaned against the tree looking sullen and stressed. I watched for a minute as I paused a few steps in front of him. He was concentrated on his thoughts so I shifted to make my presence known. He looked up, his Crimson eyes surprised and looking remarkably like his sisters.
" Kaiba what brings you here?" He asked tilting his head to the side and narrowing his eyes at me. I looked away unable to look into his eyes when it made me think of her like this. It was just too painful and I had my fair share of pain in my life.
I slowly sat down next to him against the tree, wanting to just take in the moment. I couldn't even remember the last time I sat on the grass, certainly not in one of my designer suits. I sighed and closed my eyes, it was strange, crazy even to feel so comfortable just sitting next to someone whom I had hated days before... Hated. Had I ever really hated him? Sure I didn't always like him, I wanted to beat him. To become better than him, because I envied him, it wasn't even about duel monsters, well it was mostly not about duel monsters. I envied the life he had because he was surrounded by friends, was able to love and be loved in return. But how could I envy him, he lived half his life trapped in a puzzle and the other has lived in the body of his best friend. What kind of a life was that?
I frowned, never being one to like thinking about such emotional things. It made me feel uncomfortable, and it was hard to really wrap my head around things. Two complete lives where I grew in different ways and different feelings. One life I was loved, and kind and praised, and the next I was beaten and hated and used. The only qualities that stayed the same were that I was perseverance and intelligent and loyal.
I had spent a long part of my life, of this life hating myself and feeling unworthy of my bothers love. I had been looked down on even as I rose above and beyond what was expected of me at the young age of 15 and tool over Kaiba Corp. But people were afraid of me, afraid to get close to me, and over time I began to tell myself I didn't want anyone's friendship or their pity.
After a while I opened my eyes, and turned to face him, my thoughts were clearer and I was sure now in my resolve to tell him what I remembered. He deserved to know and I felt like it my duty as his friend to tell him. His friend, yes I was sure of that and with so many new emotions flowing freely through me for the first time in years I was finding myself almost childishly eager to share this with him. Just to have someone to talk to. I had never wanted to talk to anyone, other than Mokaba.
" Pharaoh, I... could we talk somewhere more private?" I asked, not surprised to find that he was intently watching me. His eyes widened once more completely shocked that I referred to him with such respect. He simply nodded bobbing his head up and down several times. I smirked lightly and stood up.
He followed me to my limo. Just as I was getting into the door I saw Jou and Kyrri walking up to the school. Kyrri was looking dejectedly at the pavement, so she didn't notice us but Jou looked at Atem startled as he mouthed " What the hell?" I couldn't force myself to glare at him but focused to keep it neutral. He quickly turned Kyrri towards the school as the bastard Thief walked around the building effectively distracting Kyrri before she could notice me and her brother getting into my limo.
I glared as she smiled at him, it didn't fully reach her eyes but I didn't even want her around him. He was evil, he was the reason that she had died, that the Pharaoh had died and I had remained alive, to become Atem successor and take over ruling Egypt. The only person left alive who even remembered the rightful king and the beloved princess. I wanted to see him dead, his blood on my hands.
" So he is good for something after all then," I muttered as I watched closely at the scene before us. My tension put him on guard again and I forced myself to look away leaving her protection in Jonoichi's care.
" What is this all about Kaiba?" He asked as my driver began to drive the car down the street, I took a deep breath to center myself and looked at him before I spoke.
" It's actually a very long story old friend." The tone of my voice and my sudden shift in my mood made hi suck in a sharp intake of breath.
" What..What did you say?" He stuttered, looking every bit of the Seventeen-year-old boy he was under the 5000 years. Sometimes it was hard to remember that not only was he still technically a child but that I myself was only a young adult. Just barely not a baby, a far cry from the adult I was every day.
" Atem, your name is Atem and you were not only my ruler but my best friend many, many years ago." if I thought his eyes could get any wider I didn't realize they would be this wide. He just stared at me, looking like he was trying t put the pieces together but he sighed and deflated viably as he frowned.
" You say that, but even still I don't remember anything at all." I frowned along with him, I had hoped it would be as easy as to say his name and he would remember. I thought for a minute, not liking the disappointed look on his face.
" Do you remember the day we met?" I asked deciding to pick something easy, to begin with. He concentrated and then shook his head sadly.
" It's like there is this block, every time I try I hit a brick wall... How do you even remember? I thought this was all 'make belief' to you?" he said as he began to get defensive. I sighed.
" It was her, she made me remember. It was no piece of cake either, I spent the last couple of days in a kind of denial over it all. The pressure of having two fully lived lives squeezed into my head was hard to deal with." I admitted honestly, no reason to keep things from him now.
" Who?" he asked as he stared at his hands in his lap. I bit my lip, this was the part I wasn't really ready to talk about, but what other option did I have?
" Kyrri." was all I could mumble though I had intended to say more. This still caused him to watch me intently, as I began to fidget.
" I knew she had something to do with my past. But I hadn't figured it out, she has this bracelet that is obviously Egyptian but not an Item...and every time I look at her I feel like I'm missing something. But I can't ask her, she is so caught up in her own life that she doesn't even notice anything else." this made me angry, she had been here what five days at most and he wanted her to just remember everything immediately? Like I had like I was wanting him to do. I deflated a little and took another deep breath. This was harder than I thought it was going to be.
" Atem..." I started only to have him glare at me.
" Don't call me that, its no longer my name. My name is Yami now," he said looking sad again, boy was he a roller coaster of emotions right now but I wasn't really in a position to talk. So I just nodded, taking note in my head that it probably had something to do with Yugi giving him the name.
" I didn't want to have to do this... I'm not sure if I even still can. But I'll try to clear your mind Yami." I muttered sounding unsure even to myself as I raised my hand and tried to focus my energy. I didn't have a lot to start within this life, and my constant denial of all things magic and everything that concerned my past. Why had I tried to run from all this, yea it was well... weird. But it was "me" it had always been a part of me, accepting that now made me feel lighter somehow.
Taking a deep breath I steadied myself. Yami raised his eyes to mine, he looked sad and disappointed in himself. He looked like he wanted with all his might to just remember something, anything. I nodded to myself and tried to harness the energy I could feel in myself. It was small at first. Buried under years of self-loathing and pain. Soon I could feel an energy within Yami, I visualized it as if it were a glowing ball of liquid golden light. I imagined using my own energy, light blue in color begin to wrap around his own and heal the wound of his mind.
It seemed to be working until something snapped, what was one singular ball of Yamis golden energy shifted into two separate orbs. My energy began to pulsate, I tried to pull away but found I was unable to. The surging energy lashed around wildly, it grew rapidly and I could feel myself beginning to lose control. Yami's eyes widened in fear and he inched back a bit.
I couldn't stop it. I couldn't harness it. I couldn't control the power rushing through me. I yelled out as white-hot lightning pain shoot through my arm and pass directly into Yami. He gasped and grabbed his head and screamed. My driver hit the breaks and I flew into the floor.
I don't really know what happened next, partly because I was face first on the floor but mostly because I was cringing in pain and cradling my wounded arm like a baby.
" Seth." He didn't really ask but slowly stated it. I rose my head, his eyes were a little more ruby colored. I was startled at his obvious difference with Yugi now. But he looks just as I had remembered him when I was his priest. I fought the urge to bow my head in respect, years of rivalry stopped that and I saw him more my equal now than I ever had.
" Did you just mind crush me?" He asked his voice deep and confused. I shook my head 'no'.
" I had meant to... but I don't think that's what happened, I'm not sure what happened," I admitted my voice shaking, I looked at my hands and realized my whole body was trembling. I felt afraid, for the first time in years. I actually felt like a child, stupid.
" Seto?" he asked coming closer, I took notice that he was calling me by my first name but it didn't bother me. I mean how could it, did I really have anyone else to talk to? Anyone who could understand even one-tenth of how I was feeling right now. How I was handling all everything that was happening around me, everything was changing. I hate change, but to have Kyrri back in my life, or to be friends with Yami wasn't really change was it? It seemed natural so I just shrugged it off and tried to calm my shaking hands.
" I... I couldn't control it... Yami how can I not control it... I could have killed you." His eyes softened as I spoke. And he took a step closer.
" Well, it has been a long time." He tried to lighten my mood but I clamped my hands into tight fists.
" No, it wasn't that. I.. I don't think I can do that again." It was against my morals to back down from a challenge. But if I never had to feel this again I would be fine. I straightened myself and sat back down on the seat. He shifted over with a big smile on his face. Even if I was startled at losing control I was happy to have brought him some ease.
I had yelled at my driver after that and convinced him he was an idiot. So at least if some things were changing others were staying the same. I could take comfort in being a jackass. We ate after that at some cheap and disgusting fast food chain and swapped memories and story's from our past life. It was strange, but I felt like I was finally letting go of some kind of fear that there was nothing in the world. Obviously, there was something, and even if not for the first time this was enough.
I dropped him off at school in the middle of lunch and was on my way to Kaiba corp to get some work done when Mokuba called. He demanded I take him to Domino high because he impulsively made an appointment with the principal about his high scores on his entrance exams and his early enrollment. I had swallowed the lump in my throat and picked him up. When we got to the school he jumped out without waiting for me, after not really talking to me much in the car. He looked like he had a lot on his mind, so I just left him to it myself having much to think about.
So here I sat waiting for Mokaba to get out of the school so I could hear his news on whether or not he was going to be a high school student at the age of thirteen. I gave up on typing and closed my laptop, too much on my mind to be able to focus. I shifted from thinking about Mokuba to thinking about earlier today and thinking of Kyrri and how I could get her to remember without using shadow magic like I had before. I rubbed my arm self consciously as it stung.
I heard a girl scream and looked out the window curiously. All the students that should be leaving school and going home were gathered around the front of the building. I saw a couple of kids point up to the roof when my eyes reached what they were pointing at I pushed my laptop to the floor of my limo and jumped out of the car.
Kyrri was hanging from the roof being held by the tomb robber who was being held by Yami. I felt my body tense as I pushed my long legs to go as fast as they could. I pushed my way through the crowd knocking several people down as I saw her slip from the bastards grip. Her shoe following her tumble towards the pavement.
I had about two seconds, once I plowed my way through the idiots to put myself directly below her. I knew I couldn't catch her from three story's up but I could at least cushion her fall. She collided with my shoulder and I threw my arms around her. I skidded over the sidewalk leaving a burning sensation on my skin. I watched as her head slammed into the ground leaving a gash on her four-head.
" Seto!" I heard Yami scream and wasn't surprised when I looked up and he was gone, surely coming down here to see if his sister was okay. I tried to sit up and yelled out as I felt a burning pain shoot through my rib cage. I gritted my teeth and forced myself to sit up and bring her head into my lap.
I heard the whispers then, as people started to realize what just happened. Then the strangest thing happened. Someone started to clap, and then others followed. People were cheering for me, for what I had done. I felt a swell of pride when I realized that I had done something good, something right for the first time in so long. I couldn't help the smile that formed but I coughed to hide it and grimaced when I hurt my rib cage.
" Kaiba! Where did you... I mean how did you... I called 911." The Mutt was beside me quickly. Looking at Kyrri with wide terrified eyes. I noticed he had shed tears already, and noted that if he cared about her enough to cry he couldn't be all that bad. He was still a Mutt though I finally decided. But at least he called an ambulance.
Kyrri had blood gushing out of the gash on her head but that seemed to be the worst of her injuries, though I came out of this worse than her I couldn't be happier. I accomplished what I was trying to do by protecting her even if it felt weird to protect anyone besides Mokuba.
" Oh, Ra Seto thank you for saving her," Yami said as he dropped down next to us. I noted that the Thief was behind him giving him an incredulous look at his casual use of my name. I found it funny that it still didn't bother me.
" I didn't do it for you." was my response, to some it may have sounded cold but he noted the softness of my tone and how I brushed her hair from the blood on her face.
" Seto! What the hell happened here?" Mokuba shouted as he nearly pushed Yami aside and grabbed my shoulder. I winced, hurt there too and he let go.
" I saved her," I said sounding proud to even myself, he looked at me like I was crazy unable to say anything for a moment, he balled and uncalled his fists and looked around with his mouth open and his eyes wide before he turned back to me and closed his mouth.
" But why?" he questioned as he dropped down to his knees and gave Kyrri a once over to see if she was okay. I struggled to come up with an answer that didn't reveal too much but that kept me from having to lie to him.
" I couldn't just let her die." I finally stuttered he just smiled at me, like I had said the right thing and patted my back earning another wince from me.
" Just what is going on here? Mr. Kaiba what are you... Oh, my Is this young woman Okay? What happened?" the Principal pushed students aside as the Mutt explained what he saw, Yami was pulled away as was Bakura as the principal yelled and asked questions. He pretty much ignored me and Kyrri while he got the details. Then he keeled and started to check Kyrri's injuries. I heard the ambulance and too soon she was taken from me as I was forced onto a stretcher and into another ambulance.
Once I allowed myself to lean back against the plastic cushion of the stretcher even though my back was burning from the cuts and scratches on it I began to relax, and the adrenaline gave out leaving me in excruciating pain. I was sure they gave me something because everything got fuzzy and it was hard to focus. I closed my eyes and blackness overcame me.
Kry: Oh my gosh I'm so happy to have finally finished this! I didn't add as much to this chapter as I did to the last one but I did add at least a thousand words in my attempt to get more inside Kyrri's mind.