My head hurt terribly when I woke up in a dark room. It was ice cold in there and I started shaking uncontrolably. I tried to make out my surroundings, hugging myself for warmth, but failed. It was just too dark and my head was spinning like crazy. I sat down against what I supposed to be a wall and hugged my knees to my chest tightly. It was then that I noticed that there was something missing. It was so natural for me to wear it around my neck that I didn't notice at first that my millenium puzzle wasn't there. Great, now I couldn't even try to contact Yami as hard as it would have been over the distance anyway. Crying would not help me , I knew that, but I just couldn't help myself when a few tears descended down over my cheeks.
I jumped when I heard the door open on the other side of the room. That just couldn't mean something good as to who my host was.
"Yugi,"she said in her hypocratical voice.It changed when she didn't see me at once: "Now, shrimp, there is no way you can hide from me in here anyway. Come out and perhaps I won't be too hard on you for now."
She suddenly turned on the light and I had to close my eyes the sudden change in light blinding me. That was the reason for not being able to doge the fist hit she gave me. She punched me directly in my stomach as my arms were raised to shield my eyes. I groaned in pain and just as my eyes had adjusted to the light she hit me yet again, this time in my head, causing me to fall over to the ground, my hands clamped over my stomach. There was no way that I was able to fight back in such a position, but I wouldn't stand a chance against her anyway, she was a lot taller than me. I simply let her beat me, over and over again, kicking me and batting down at me with something hard. I groaned in pain, tears and blood running down my face.
Eventually she seemed to get tiered as I didn't fight back and decided to let me bleed to death were I lay on the floor. But unfortunately I had no such luck. She came back after a few awfully short minutes, two pairs of handcuffs in the one, a whip in the other hand.
My eyes widened in shock at that sight and I tried to scoot away from her in fear, but there was no way to escape. She just laughed manically at me as she bent down and ripped my already torn apart shirt away and pressed me face down to the ground. She handcuffed each of my wrists to the leg of a table and started to leash down on my back mercilessly. I couldn't help but scream in agony with every whip she gave me, all the time tears of pain and desperation welling out of my swollen eyes.
After some time she stopped again, but this time I didn't raise my hopes. And I was right. She returned after a moment of silence and as I was still chained to that table I was not able to see with what she would be tormenting me this time.
"I liked the way you screamed just a moment ago, little Yugi, and that is why I'm going to make you scream even more. You are going to wish that you were never born! Ha, ha, ha!"
I didn't answer, just silently cried, indeed wishing, no praying on something. I prayed that Yami would come and find me, wherever she brought me to.
I screamed again, a blinding pain shooting through my lower back, my eyes widening in the agony as I tried to squirm away, all in vain. She did this several times and I suppose she was dripping hot wax all over my bleading wounds. The pain was nearly unbearable and I almost fell unconsious when she kicked into my side to prevent me from doing so. She started her administrations with the hot liquid over again when the doorbell rang.
She cursed, kneeling on my injured back.
"You keep quiet, got that?! One word and you are going to be dead sooner than you expect it!" she sneered, pushing her knee into my ribs while rising to her feet.
I tried to be as quiet as possible, not because she told me so, but because the last piece of reason that survived her tormenting told me to listen who was outside.
I didn't hear one word spoken, just footsteps slowly coming back in the direction of the room. The earlier closed door swung open and crashed against the wall, splittering into millions of pieces and I screamed in shock, rolling into a small ball. When I slowly opened one of my eyes I could see Anzu backing into the room shaking her head.
"Please! I didn't mean to hurt him! Please let me go!" she screeched in fear.
Then I saw him, standing in the doorframe. The Eye of Ra glowing fiercely on his forehead, his eyes devoid of all emotion. They glowed bright red and Tea went flying through the room, crashing into a wall. She slumped down unconsiously, breathing shallowly.
I looked at Yami in fear, my breath hitching, but the moment he spotted me on the floor his eyes softend and the Eye of Ra vanished. He slowly took a few steps closer, seemingly afraid to touch me. I could see tears running down his face as he looked me up and down, kneeling beside me and freeing me from the handcuffs. He sat on his heels, hanging his head low.
"I'm so sorry, again, that …"
I didn't let him finish his sentence. I jumped into his arms, nearly crushing his lungs. He slowly and very carefully wrapped his arms around me, not wanting to hurt me. I clung to him like there was no tomorrow and cried helplessly into his neck as he silently cried with me. After a while of doing so, he pulled back a bit, carefully whiping my tears with his tumps and taking off his jacket to put it around me.
"Let's go home," he said, sofly kissing my temple as he carried me in his arms.
