Yami Kiryu, Chapter 7
By: Storychan
Welp I'm home for Christmas break so I'm on a fic-updating binge. I already updated my other Yu Gi Oh fic with a protagonist of questionable sanity ("Too Much Work", my Jounouchi x OC / Kaiba x OC fic. The OC, Himeko, is a teen mom who became a mercenary after a nervous breakdown. Check it out. It needs more love.) So I'm already in a "crazy people POV" mood. Who cares if it's 10:30 at night already? -_- Sleep is for the weak!
This time, Yami Kiryu and Yusei have a nice, disturbing little chat that will haunt your nightmares. You're welcome. :)
Enjoy, and don't forget to review!
-Storychan
GRAPHIC MENTIONS OF TORTURE/MURDER AHEAD. YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED.
I have you.
Had Kiryu really just said that?
OHOHOHO THAT WAS PRETTY BOLD, Yami Kiryu teased. DO YOU LIKE HER, KIRYU-KUN?
"She can save me from you!" Kiryu declared.
"That's right, Kiryu-san, you tell him!" Carly said supportively. "You don't need to be afraid anymore."
BUT YOU ARE AFRAID, AREN'T YOU, KIRYU-KUN? Yami Kiryu continued. AFRAID OF A VOICE IN YOUR HEAD THAT NOBODY ELSE CAN HEAR, THAT ISN'T EVEN REAL…OR AM I? WHO'S REALLY THE FAKE KIRYU, HMM? YOU'VE BEEN ME LONGER THAN YOU'VE BEEN YOU. MAYBE THE ALTER EGO HERE IS YOU. DID YOU EVER THINK OF THAT?
"I'm real…." Kiryu muttered.
YOU DON'T SOUND TOO SURE ~ Yami Kiryu taunted. THEN THERE'S LITTLE MISS NAGISA HERE. SHE CAN'T SEE ME, SHE CAN'T HEAR ME, BUT SHE'S TELLING YOU TO 'TELL' ME THINGS JUST LIKE I'M A REAL PERSON. WHO'S THE REAL LOONY, AMIRIGHT?
"Talk to Yusei," Carly pleaded, pressing her phone insistently against Kiryu's ear. "Please, Kiryu-san, I don't know what you're hearing in your head, but I know he can help you!"
SHE'S PAWNING YOU OFF ON THAT TRAITOR YUSEI BECAUSE SHE DOESN'T WANT TO DEAL WITH YOU, Yami Kiryu alleged. SHE THINKS YOU'RE A LUNATIC AND THIS IS JUST PART OF HER PLAN TO GET RID OF YOU.
"You're wrong!" Kiryu cried.
"You don't think Yusei can help you?" Carly asked. She was still standing so close to Kiryu, staring up at him with eyes full of wet concern. She was just trying to help….right?
"I wasn't talking to you, Carly-san," Kiryu clarified, shaking his head.
RIGHT. YOU'RE SPEAKING ALOUD TO THE VOICE IN YOUR HEAD. YEAH THAT'S TOTALLY GOING TO MAKE HER THINK YOU'RE LESS OF A LUNATIC, KIRYU-KUN. Yami Kiryu cackled sarcastically. SHE'S PROBABLY GOING TO RUN FOR THE HILLS AS SOON AS YOU PICK UP THE PHONE. OR MAYBE NOT THE HILLS. MORE LIKELY THE POLICE STATION. "THERE'S A CRAZY MAN IN MY HOUSE! HE'S TRIED TO KILL ME ONCE ALREADY! HE THINKS IT WAS SOMEONE ELSE WHO HURT ME, BUT IT'S REALLY JUST HIM!"
"NO…." Kiryu muttered. "I didn't hurt her, I didn't!"
YOU AND MISS NAGISA ARE THE ONLY TWO PEOPLE HERE, KIRYU-KUN. YOU CAN ACT LIKE WE'RE TWO DIFFERENT MEN, BUT MY BLOODLUST SHINED FROM YOUR EYES. THE HANDS THAT WRAPPED THEMSELVES AROUND MISS NAGISA'S NECK WERE YOUR OWN. WHEN I TAKE OVER AND BEAT HER CUTE LITTLE BRAINS OUT OF HER SKULL WITH THE MEAT TENDERIZER YOU'RE STILL HOLDING AND SPLATTER THEM ALL OVER THE KITCHEN WALLS, THAT WILL BE YOUR HANDS, TOO.
"NO!" Kiryu cried. "I won't let you take over! Don't you dare hurt her!" He wrapped his arms around Carly protectively. She blushed.
MOVING YOUR HANDS CLOSER TO HER BODY IS JUST GOING TO MAKE BLUDGEONING HER MORE EASY FOR ME, YOU FOOL! Yami Kiryu laughed.
"I'll stop you before you can hurt one hair on her head!" Kiryu cried, and swung the meat tenderizer toward his own head again. YOUR NOBLE PLAN TO KILL YOURSELF TO STOP ME IS JUST MAKING ME STRONGER, Yami Kiryu laughed uproariously. BECAUSE IF YOU INSIST THAT YOU AND I ARE TWO DIFFERENT PEOPLE, THEN YOU'RE NOT KILLING YOU, ARE YOU? YOU'RE KILLING ANOTHER MAN. AND THAT'S NOT SUICIDE, KIRYU-KUN, THAT'S MURDER. YOU WANT TO MURDER, JUST LIKE I DO. YOU ENJOY THE THOUGHT OF DESTROYING ME. SO I'M NOT THE ONLY ONE WHO DELIGHTS IN THE THOUGHT OF KILLING, AM I? DON'T YOU SEE IT? WE BOTH BELIEVE THAT DELICIOUS VIOLENCE IS ALWAYS THE ANSWER.
Carly wrenched the tenderizer from Kiryu's hands before it could strike true. She tossed it away, to the other side of the kitchen. She held Kiryu tightly. "No, please don't hurt yourself, Kiryu-kun," she begged. SO SHE ADMITS I'M 'YOURSELF'? Yami Kiryu asked, in stitches. Kiryu moaned in agony, which only made his other self laugh more.
"Please," Carly continued. "Please I know you think it's the only way out, but I promise that there is another way than doing this to yourself, listen to me…."
"Is there?" Kiryu cried. "Is there really? I don't know anymore, I don't know what's real and what isn't, you have to get out of here, Carly-san, please, before he hurts you…."
"I'm not leaving you!" Carly declared, determination in her eyes. "You said Jack didn't give up on me when I became a Dark Signer, right? He was able to heal me of the blackness in my heart by being my friend. I want to do the same for you."
"I think he wanted to be a little more than your friend, Carly," Kiryu remembered. She said she loved him, right? And he carried her glasses around like a tragic keepsake for such a long time…He embraced her when she died in his arms…My old friend must love her, right? I can see why. She's so beautiful, and so kind. "Why aren't you with him right now, anyway? Even if you forget everything, he still remembers that you confessed to him before you died again, right?"
Carly blushed. "That isn't important right now."
OH I THINK IT IS, Yami Kiryu insisted. I THINK IT'S VERY IMPORTANT TO REMEMBER THAT SHE DOESN'T LOVE YOU, KIRYU-KUN. SHE LOVES YOUR FRIEND. SHE THINKS HE'S BETTER THAN YOU. WHY WOULD SHE WANT A CRAZY COWARD LIKE YOU, ANYWAY, WHO CAN'T EVEN ADMIT WHAT HE IS?
"You mean a killer?" Kiryu cried. "That is not what I am, Yami! I will never kill anyone ever again! I didn't kill Yusei, even when we had a chance in that duel! I chose to change!"
"That's right, you did," Carly reminded. "Talk to Yusei now. Relax, and just talk to him, ok?" She held up the phone again.
"No, no, Carly, I can't," Kiryu argued. "He'll….he'll hate me, or he'll fear me, or he'll judge me. I don't want him to see me like this, and think I'm…."
"The only thing he'll think," said Carly, "is that you are his friend, and that you need his help. He drove all the way to Crashtown last time you needed help, right? He dropped everything and drove out there, because he cares about you. If you ask him, I'm sure he'll come here, too."
"NO!" Kiryu screamed, frantic. "HE CAN'T COME HERE!"
"Why not?"
"Because he'll kill him! The other me will torture him, destroy him. I can't risk that. I don't want anything bad to happen to Yusei. Please."
"If you don't call him, something bad could happen to you," Carly countered. "And that is something I can't risk." Kiryu's eyes widened and he wondered again why Carly cared. But, to Carly's surprise, he picked up the phone.
"Hello?" Yusei asked on the other hand. "Kiryu? Is that you? What's going on?"
"Yusei!" Kiryu cried. "Oh, Yusei, you won't believe what's happening. I keep hearing this voice….this other me. He says he still wants vengeance against you, but I don't want that, Yusei, you have to believe me, he's not me!"
"OK," Yusei replied, calm and rational, as always. "I believe you. Just relax, OK? We'll figure this out."
"W-we will? You're not scared? You don't think I'm nuts?"
"Of course not," said Yusei soothingly. "You're my friend, and I'm not afraid to come help you if you need me. I'm on my way there, actually. I'll be there soon, and we can talk about this voice in your head, alright?"
"NO!" Kiryu shrieked, terror gripping him like a cold hand. "YUSEI, DON'T COME HERE! HE'LL GET YOU! I'M AFRAID I CAN'T STOP HIM! YOU'RE WHAT HE WANTS!" And suddenly the terror in Kiryu's mind was building to a fever pitch and he was losing it, slipping….NO…..
Carly took a step back and a shiver ran down her spine as Kiryu's eyes changed from bewildered, primal fear to cold, calm bloodlust. He winked at her. "I'M BACK." he – no, this wasn't him anymore! – chuckled. "MISS ME?"
"Kiryu?" Yusei called through the phone. "Kiryu, are you still there? What's going on?"
"KIRYU HAS STEPPED OUT FOR THE MOMENT," Yami Kiryu replied, tightening the hands he now controlled once again around the receiver. "I'VE BEEN MEANING TO TALK TO YOU, YUSEI, YOU TRAITOROUS BASTARD. ALLOW ME TO INTRODUCE MYSELF. I'M YAMI KIRYU. I'M YOUR WORST NIGHTMARE."
"I want to talk to Kiryu!" Yusei commanded, ignoring the psychotic Yami. "Kiryu, I know you're in there, wake up! Fight this!"
"HE CAN'T HEAR YOU," Yami Kiryu laughed. "HE DOESN'T NEED TO BE HERE RIGHT NOW. THIS CONVERSATION IS BETWEEN YOU AND ME, YUSEI. I WANT YOU TO KNOW THAT UNLIKE THAT CRAVEN PUNK I SHARE A BODY WITH, I STILL BLAME YOU FOR MY DEATH. I THINK YOU FED THE OTHER ME A BUNCH OF LIES TO SAVE YOUR PATHETIC ASS. I THINK YOU ARE RESPONSIBLE AND YOU JUST DON'T WANT TO ADMIT IT. AND EVEN IF YOU'RE NOT LYING AND YOU DIDN'T RAT ME OUT TO SECTOR SECURITY, YOU'RE STILL TO BLAME. YOU SHOULDN'T HAVE GOTTEN IN MY WAY. YOU SHOULDN'T HAVE TRIED TO STOP ME FROM DESTROYING EVERYONE WHO OPPOSED US. WE WERE TEAM SATISFACTION. WE WERE GOING TO BE KINGS OF SATELLITE! AND KINGS KEEP THEIR THRONES BY NEVER SHOWING MERCY."
"When you started Team Satisfaction, mercy was your goal!" Yusei disagreed. "You saw how merciless Sector Security and the duel gangs were to our friends, and you wanted to change that. You wanted to make Satellite a better place for everyone. You wanted to help people, Kiryu. You were a good person. You saved my life when I was falling once. Let me save you now."
"I DON'T NEED SAVING!" Yami Kiryu railed. "I DON'T NEED YOU! AT LEAST NOT ALIVE. I NEED YOU DEAD AND OUT OF MY WAY. I CRAVE YOUR DEATH. SWEET, SWEET VENGEANCE WILL BE MINE. I WILL TASTE VENGEANCE IN YOUR BLOOD. I WILL TEAR YOUR HEAD FROM YOUR SHOULDERS AND DRINK THE BLOOD THAT RUSHES FROM THE WOUND. I'LL LICK THE SPOT WHERE YOUR HEAD SNAPPED. I'LL GET DRUNK ON YOUR BLOOD AND THEN I'LL EAT YOUR BONES. I'LL PULL YOUR SPINE OUT OF THE HOLE WHERE YOUR HEAD USED TO BE AND I'LL SUCK ON IT. AND BEFORE I DO THAT, BEFORE I KILL YOU, I'LL BREAK ALL YOUR FINGERS OFF AND I'LL EAT THEM IN FRONT OF YOU. THEN I'LL CARVE OUT YOUR EYES WITH MY NAILS AND I'LL MAKE YOU EAT THEM. I'LL SCREAM WITH JOY AS YOU SCREAM IN PAIN. I'LL PICK YOUR FLESH OUT OF MY TEETH WITH YOUR TOES, WHICH I'LL REMOVE ONE BY ONE. I'LL CUT OFF YOUR ARMS AND SHOVE THEM UP YOUR ASS. I'LL CUT OUT YOUR LYING TONGUE AND I'LL SHOVE IT INTO YOUR BLEEDING EYE SOCKETS. I'LL RIP OUT YOUR TEETH AND STUFF YOUR EARS WITH THEM. I'LL CUT OFF YOUR LEGS AND FUCK MYSELF WITH THEM AS YOU LAY THERE BLEEDING, WANTING TO BEG FOR DEATH BUT UNABLE TO SPEAK. I'LL TORTURE YOU, I'LL MAKE YOU SUFFER FOR AS LONG AS I SUFFERED BEFORE I DIED, BEFORE I'LL ALLOW YOU THE MERCY OF GOING TO HELL. WHAT DO YOU SAY TO THAT, YUSEI? DO YOU STILL THINK I'M YOUR FRIEND?"
There was silence on the other end of the line, and Yami Kiryu smirked triumphantly.
But then Yusei spoke again. "You've proven to me," he said, "that you are definitely not Kiryu. Because Kiryu would never say those things. He is my friend. And I don't know who or what you are, but I will not let you take him over! I'll wake him back up! KIRYU! CAN YOU HEAR ME? COME ON, MAN, TAKE CONTROL BACK!"
"SCREAM ALL YOU WANT, YOU WILL NEVER HEAR THAT KIRYU'S VOICE AGAIN," Yami Kiryu promised. "BUT DON'T HANG UP. I WANT YOU TO HEAR MISS NAGISA HEAR SCREAM AND DIE BEFORE I DISCONNECT THIS CALL. AND I WANT YOU TO KNOW THAT YOU WILL BE NEXT."
