Gomen nesai gomen nesaii!! I've been so wrapped up in other things all summer, I completely had a brain lapse about this fic! Please, forgive meeee!! TT I hope this story will begin making sense very soon n.n But, I've hit a stride, so updates should be more frequent!
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It became a fixation.
Yugi had to finish it. He knew it was a Puzzle, but how it was put together… he had no idea. He also recognized slightly the boy in the bed next to his, Bakura Ryou. He knew that, somehow, he played an important role in his "dream". What that role was, he was also unsure.
Ryou was sitting cross-legged on the edge of Yugi's bed, pieces to the Puzzle cupped in his hands. Yugi was frowning at the pieces, frustrated that he couldn't get it.
"I know… that maybe putting this thing together, I can figure out what this is all about," Yugi said, Ryou shrugging. Yugi sighed and stared down at the piece shaped like an Eye, his hands closing around it.
"So… you said that I was, umm, in your dream…" Ryou started, trailing off. Yugi glanced up and nodded. He tightened his fist around the eye piece more. For some reason… holding it… gave him warmth…
"I don't really know how important you were," Yugi said, wriggling his fingers, "but I know that you were. Somehow." Ryou lowered his head.
"Do you know… anything about me that I could know?" he asked slowly. Yugi nodded.
"You were… quiet."
"Quiet?"
"Yes." Silence ensued as Yugi continued to fiddle with the pieces. It didn't matter how much he fiddled with them, he couldn't figure out how they fit together.
"Are you sure these pieces go together?" Ryou asked timidly. Yugi nodded and sighed, dropping the pieces.
"I… I know I can do it," he said softly after a time. Ryou watched Yugi's face for any change in expression, but Yugi just stared blankly at the pieces, then leaned back and glanced out the window. Ryou picked up a piece and stared at it. For some reason, this piece kept jumping out at him, even though it resembled every other piece in the pile.
"This must be a corner piece," Ryou said, trying to break the slump. Yugi said nothing, just stared out the window. Ryou dropped the piece down again and glanced at Yugi. "Yugi…"
"Yeah?"
"Who… who was, umm, singing the other night?" Yugi glanced at Ryou, then stared at his hands.
"…I have no idea, Ryou. That voice… it was so familiar…"
"Yeah, it was," Ryou agreed, folding his legs tighter. "I wonder who it was…"
"I thought it was you," Ryou admitted. "That's all I can remember. I remember my thoughts… I thought that it was you singing—" Ryou stopped talking as his expression grew wide.
"Ryou?" Yugi asked. Ryou was shaking his head
"No… I didn't think it was you… I thought… I knew… it was…"
--Yugi's thoughts
Mou hitori no Yugi? What the hell? That's what Ryou had told me before the nurse had ushered him away for a checkup.
Another Yugi? I mean, they're probably people out there besides me named 'Yugi', but the way Ryou said it… Almost like he was talking to me, but not exactly… It was strange.
I was all alone in the room now, that one phrase trapped in my mind. Mou hitori no Yugi. Who is this 'other Yugi', exactly? What's going on!?
I was able to visit Jonouchi today. That took my mind off things. But Jonouchi seemed very distant, mumbling something under his breath.
"Jonouchi? What is it, what's wrong?" I asked. Jonouchi glanced at me, and then bit his lower lip.
"It's… hard," Jonouchi muttered. "There's this… word… I've been hearing, in my head lately… I can' figure out what it means, this word."
"What word is it?" I asked. Jonouchi sighed.
" 'Pharaoh'… Y'know, an ancient Egyptian king… It's… driving me insane… But… I think it has to do with your dream."
"You think so?" Jonouchi nodded.
"I know so, Yugi. It's… there. But it's not just a word, it's a person, too. There's someone from your dream haunting us all, Yugi, because your dream has to have been real. It had to have been real. There's no other explanation for this." I stared at him. He seemed so sure of himself…
Jonouchi sighed and leaned back, closing his eyes. He was tired for some reason.
"If only Anzu hadn't lost those photos…" Jonouchi whispered. "If… only the Puzzle hadn't broken…"
What the—
Both Jonouchi and I stared at each other, Jonouchi blinking in confusion.
What the hell is going on?!
Is everyone gaining some memory of my 'dream'? Did it really happen, then?
"What about the Puzzle, Jonouchi? Tell me!" I cried, grabbing his arms. Jonouchi breathed deeply and bit his lower lip.
"I… I don't know where that came from… But OH MY GOD!!" Jonouchi screamed suddenly, leaning back and breathing quickly. I blinked.
"Jou? Something—"
"You're bleeding! Look!!" Jonouchi sad, pointing at my side. I looked down and, sure enough, my right side was a deep red, bleeding through my pajamas. The strange thing was… I didn't feel any pain.
"I'm calling the doctor!!" Jonouchi said, grabbing the phone beside his bed. I blinked.
"Jou… I don't feel any pain," I told him in a soft voice. Jounouchi stared at me, frowning.
"That can't be—YUGI!" But I didn't hear his last words. All I felt was the soft bed beneath my body and nothing else.
"He just stared bleeding," Jonouchi was telling the doctor. The doctor glanced down at Yugi, sighing. Yugi was lying in a bed in a different part of the hospital, with thick bandages around his waist. Although, the bleeding wouldn't stop... "And then he fainted." A nurse was positioning a breathing mask over Yugi's face. He was having trouble breathing.
"Call his parents," the doctor said to the nurse, and then turned back to Jonouchi. "Jonouchi, I – What the…" Jonouchi was staring down at Yugi, a contemplative look on his face. He was staring at a spot near Yugi's head on his bed, where someone could sit and watch him. Jonouchi's eyes widened, and he backed up, holding his head.
"W-what was th-that?" he whispered. "Oh… Oh my God…"
"Jonouchi! What is it?" the doctor asked. Jonouchi shook his head and breathed deeply.
"I thought…. I thought I saw… someone… sitting… right there," Jonouchi said, pointing to the spot he was staring at. He blinked a few times and sighed. He turned and ran down the hallway, getting yelled at in the process.
The doctor stared behind him, and then looked down at Yugi. Yugi was lying there, very peacefully, sleeping. The doctor sighed.
"This whole thing is one giant mess…"
"We're getting close," Anzu whispered, sliding pieces into place. Honda bit his lower lip.
"Are you sure we can do this, Anzu?" he whispered. "We've never solved this thing before."
"We're gonna have to," Anzu whispered back. It was the daed of night, and Anzu and Honda were sitting on Honda's bed, trying to piece the Puzzle together.
"This is stupid," Honda said, frowning. "Anzu, what makes you think we can suddenly solve the Puzzle?! It took Yugi eight years to do it—"
"It only took him a few minutes the second time," Anzu said in a defiant voice. "Now shut up and help me." Honda sighed and picked up another piece. He tossed it into the air and caught it again.
"This is the piece Yami no Bakura stuck himself in," he said slowly. "I wonder if he's still in there…"
"Honda! Focus!!" Anzu hissed. "We're the only ones who've gained our full memory back, we gotta get most of this thing done—"
"Alright, alright, calm down," Honda said, fiddling with the pieces. "Oh, Anzu, this is hopeless…" Anzu slid another piece down, gave the half-finished item and half-turn, and smiled as another fit into place. Honda stared in amazement.
"Now will you help?"
Woo! So, Honda and Anzu remember… And everyone else is starting to remember. If you don't get the bleeding thing, it's because in the first chap when Yugi fell from the wall, his side starting bleeding and he was unconscious. Get it? I knew you did n.n
Again, I am so sorry!!! T.T
Shibby-One :D
