Chapter 8.
"thank god you guys finally arrived." Marik said when they entered looking as if he had been crying a disturbing look on the harden cruel Egyptian blonde.
"Wwhats happened?" ryou and yugi said together.
Only to hear a moan of pain and the sound of blood dripping to the floor, the entire gang ran towards the bed to see Mio standing over yami with a knife.
"I missed you yami~ wakey up if you don't another to join you~~"
Yami's eyes flickered half open before sitting up slowly and moving to the enter of the room a second knife wedged in his shoulder.
"now Yami~ tell me my rules again for your little hikari chan~~~"
His normally crimson eyes dulled and half lidded his movements slowed and weak as he began to sign as per order.
"one- I ….will submit … to any and all … of ….your wishes.. Two- iii will ….. never speak or …tell … about your illness …. And treat you like…as goddess….three- I ….I will nnever …. Try to…. To avoid my pun… punishment as in ….ru..le one…. If sleeping I will wake ….for me submittance…. Four- nnno one but uss can know…. Iff others…. Learn… aaa repeat of the day of agreement will be done aagain …. Too. Myself as…. Lose tongues sink…. Ships… fivee- if I try to deliberately…. Die… or …com….mit…. surside the nnext fffive hours…. Will bee painfull to me as you gain pleasure while torturing my body with what …..ever …iis on hand….. Sixxx- iiiii…iiiii….. will nev…er ccomplian.. seven- no one… but my goddess mmay touch mee… eight-ii may never forget that… I am … diposible… and thuss… must stay focused on the now…. Reather then my father….. nine- I will never ….. lie to my goddess…. Even if it means letting my friends who this agreement prott..tectss be harmed… Ten- I will never…. Leave… this place alive…. The only thing that may save me … is death….. which my goddess forbids…. Eleven- iii wont try too free the others…. Nor let them learn of these terms… twelve- iii will never show emotions other then….. submission or adoration towards or in front of my goddess….. thirteen- I may ….only call you the …following…. 'stepmother'... 'goddess' or 'master'. Fourteen- iiiii will do… anything…. Too…. Too please my goddess… even if it means dirtying the ones iii…. Pro…tect… fifteen- I ….shall…. allways… let you…. My goddess. See … my ssuffering…. Soo you can ….start… to …preair …. The one… you named…. My 'heir'….. Sixteen- iiiii cannot save them…. Thus… I …will … obey … my goddess and … discard them…. Shutting… and pushing them … away.. they are …dead to me…. Seventeen- iif I dare…. Spill….blood then iii will ab..stain from feeding…. And tell my goddess… so she may me as fit…. Eighteen- iii will …. Enforce …. The others… into … obeying your commands….. nineteen- I will …. Will…. Accept annyt..hing….ffrom mmy goddess… like ….a gift… pain… is …. My chocolate….. twenty- thee fin….nal….. term….. live …. As… my… name… means…. Ii am …. The ….darkness….. my goddess….. the snake of eternity….. never apart….. cursed for all time…..together ….asss … lovers." Yami swayed barely keeping his eyes open let alone collapsing as his bod both needed and desired the full terms shocking and terrifying the others.
"Ah ~~ such a bad boy ~~~~yami you broke the rules~~~ tell me how many~~"
"nni….ne…"
"naughty boy~~ now on your knees now like a dog." She commanded letting him sink to the floor his eyes struggling to keep open.
"Now~~ kiss your masters pussy~~~" she giggled as he crawled forward to obey laying kisses from her feet up.
"such a good boy now then take that knife out~~~ and let's put it to use do you like the sound of that~~~" she half sung with glee as he obeyed with a sharp nod his face emotionless.
"Good boy my prefect little man~~~ now say 'bye bye' to hm let's see… ohhh I know one of those pretty marble like eyes cut it out no sounds now~~ then put it in my hand~~~~ so I can make it into a necklace and always See you~~~~." she continued singing half crooning in ick pleasure as yami raised the weapon his friends frozen in shock and fear unable to move away or react to the horror movie scene. As soundlessly yami sunk the knife in the edge of his eye socket and popped it out before collapsing in pain bleeding rigour sly.
Yugi ran forward pushing past the older woman as she bent to pick up the eye out of yamis hand. Pulling off his shirt yugi started to use it to soak up the blood ruthlessly pouring from yamis empty eye socket, screaming and crying out for the wounded to live.
"I'll see you in the morning yami~~~" Mio sang leaving the room with a twisted smile on her face.
Yami managed to nod in reply to her words pushing his body up snatching the shirt from yugi's hands before standing shakily towards the bathroom the taps going on and the sound of pills being pulled out ringing into the silent room.
"oh god she …. And oh fuck… he…." Seth stuttered dropping to his knees eyes wide in fear and shock.
The room remain silent apart from a deep sobs hidden under the sound of taps before yami emerged from the bathroom the blood washed away the eyelid hanging uselessly closed as yami slowly and shakily went towards the bed after climbing into it he wrote with some of the still wet blood on the floor that they should have tea then also go to bed. Thy remained still before realising that yami no longer was awake yugi franticly checking him over with Ryou's help checking his pulse and breathing searching to see what medicines he had used even daring to check the horrific state of the empty eye. Once done the turn and ran to the windows to spend time vomiting out of it joey, malik and seto not far behind them. while the others stoped moping and got mad punching the walls and smashing the fire wood into splinters, after they finished screaming in rage and anguish with the others not too far along in state of mind they sat down knowing they needed to eat if only to have something to vomit up.
"we'll sleep out here tonight there's the blow-ups we'll push them close to the bed and lay on those…" Akefia said shaking trying to hold back his tears along with Seth knowing they need to work things out.
"we can write the note quickly and send it off to yugi's family saying who we are and what just happened if anyone has a minicamera take a photo and we can send it out with heba and yugi. They leave tonight cover story he ran away after seeing the one he loves wrapped around another's figures while giving up on his notion of helping someone as messed up as yami…." Seth said shaking with the repressed sobs.
"mokie you go with yugi…. Please if yami doesn't survive this night you'll be forced to follow his footsteps let alone the fact that were trying to keep our own surside plans out of our minds should he….." marik continued his gaze on the bed tears present but none falling.
"ii have a old one of his dads its one of those only instant ones." Bakura said clinging on to Akefia and ryou his own tears falling in hiccupping breathes.
"ook big brother…. I'll make sure someone comes for you and get him to a hospital please keep him alive till…." Mokuba sobbed standing up pulling yugi with him.
Seth quickly took as many photos as he could ones of yami and also put in some of the films they were each in. as mokuba picked up heba while yugi kissed yamis prone yet living form, as the slinked way into the night.
With Yugi-
It hadn't taken long to reach the oasis anzu and the others scenting yamis blood instantly going into realisation that their beloved friends and human partners needed help or they would lose the most important to them all. anzu quickly meowing softly so mokuba and the shell shocked yugi could follow, heba curled in yugi's arms trying to comfort the tiny human. They spent several hours walking in bush and areas before reaching city streets the two boys pulling each other closer still following the normally bad tempered cat till they reached a small corner show entitled kami games. Anzu went round back knowing the boys would follow before crying and clawing the door fitfully the boys knocking on the door in tears still covered in yamis blood. The door opened to show the elderly man his grey hair forming its natural spikes that yugi inherited from his mother's side.
"you two should come in. do you want some chocolate?" he asked stepping back at his word both boys flinching stepping into the light their eyes puffy from crying twigs and spider webs in their hair dripping with yamis crusting blood.
"no jii-san… please nno…" yugi chocked out.
Once the boys were seated Solomon mouto began to ask the obvious questions.
"you two didn't kill anyone ? I can see you need help? And this little trouble maker led you here am I correct?"
"nno we didn't ii'm mokuba Kiaba…. This is yugi….anzu the brown she cat is a friends we trained her…. Morse code among other things… the other cat heba… belongs to the owner of the blood…" mokuba half ranted placing the pictures tapes and the few things yugi owned of his mother her angel wing locket with the baby photo that anzu stole. " ahh sorry for ssend anzu to steal juust my brothers and the older ones didn't want to risk sending us here without knowing if you still lived here and still believed yugi was alive." Mokuba cried.
"where's his brother and what other one… this boys not yugi is he?" lifting a photo.
" no… mmy father recently married a woman named mio Orichi the images were taken half an hour before we got here… that's yami… the eldest he made a deal with mio…. His eye was cut out by himself on her orders after he was beaten earlier today he cut it out cleaned it up then went to bed… the others didn't want us to risk staying…"
"his eye wasn't the first wound to this body was it mokuba was it?"
"no it wasn't mio murdered yamis father who ran the orphanage then raped him when yami swore to call the cops she cut out his tongue… she then made the orphanage a porn industry making my elder brothers and the rest make these films… she wouldn't hurt them cause yami made a deal…. She gave him an STI hhe dying and nooww…" mokuba cried sobbing into yugi who hugged him gently humming one of the lullaby's he vaguely recalled his mother singing only to have his grandfather finish it.
"oh my poor grandson and you poor child. I'll start making phone calls, child services, the police and finally the hospital ok boys?" Solomon said not wanting to scare them by picking up the phone when they nodded.
he had the police come to them first the officer a man named Pegasus listened to the boys then sent the tapes to the prescient to match up with some child pronogophy that a team was running a case on, then the two boys climbed in with Solomon mouto and drove back to the hell hole mokuba called home.
They arrived with the sirens off with ten cars plus two ambulances on standby as mokuba showed them in threw the back going straight to the bed room to the others while yugi pointed Pegasus toward the 'adults' room. After waking the boys aside from critically wounded yami who was loaded on to the ambulance while the boys were taken to safety before the lights and sirens where turned on Pegasus had found in a bottle of ice yamis ripped out eye surprisingly in tacked and handed it to the medical squad that was checking out the boys after the first one took yami straight to hospital with the eye and Solomon and yugi mouto.
Mr. mouto was shot for resisting but mio taken alive scratching that her yami biter watch out for his little friends would pay for this.
After a good night sleep and many police interviews social service said Mr. somolom mouto may have custody till the police could finish up. Solomon quickly hired contractors to expand the house part of his store to give the boys shared rooms social services paying for clothes and other things for the boys as an apology.
Two weeks later
"hey yami where back" Akefia said. It was there day to visit yami in hospital yugi got everyday naturally but the others decided to take turns. He ryou and bakura sat down trying to talking to yami hopping would wake up… the doctors couldn't save his eye but please in a glass one of the same colouring, as Seth had hoped the STI was one that did have a cure and treatment was already underway on the sleeping teen.
The police had sentence mio and she was already locked up. The social workers said they may stay and found trust funds and restored them for each of them Seth had to lock seto's account after he finally understood the family motto of 'screw the rules I have money.'
They also had been enrolled at a school luckily they were starting first term and were in mainly the same classes asides mokuba who was two young for high school. The others where quick learners like mokuba thanks to yami and his dads instance both before and after to study daily. they started last week going from jii-sans (as they were told to call him) to school to the hospital then back home to jiisans. after explain their relationship to the elderly man he put in beds big enough, for more than one boy in each room each pairing having a room.
yugi would share with yami when released upstairs in yugi's mothers old room which had been empty since yugi's birth the Kiaba resided on the other side of the hall with a bunk bed a single top part for mokuba and a queen sized bottom for the three lovers. Next door to them was akefia's with his lovers and down stared near the kitchen was malik and marik room. Grandpa mouto living on the third floor.
"yami I'm here." Yugi whispered grabbing on to his hand as he always did.
Ryou sat down next to yugi trying to support him as bakura and Akefia sat down on the opposite side of the bed, gently talking to each other talking about school making sure that they were roughly making the same grades, bakura marik and joey where all making low grades. whereas the rest of the gang besides yugi Seth and seto where fast learners and tied for the top grades in there year.
"she has a life sentences with no bail for the first 10 years. She can't hurt you yami not anymore your agreement has been for filled were safe the only thing that keeps things from being perfect is you not being here. Come on yami please wake up… if you can hear us please squeeze yugi's hand." Ryou said gently moving his friends bangs out of yamis face.
Yugi suddenly flinched looking down to see the paled tan figures holding on tightly. "please yami I love you don't leave me or the others alone. Jiisans got custody of us all and were all going to school you would love it there's a class all on ancient Egypt told me when he, Akefia, bakura, and marik and malik signed up. They put your name down too for when you wake up." Yugi spoke gently cradling the hand yami was squeezing.
" come on king temmie if you don't wake up soon I'll have to take your job of watching shortie, theirs some guys trying to stalk your hikari all with bad reps." Bakura tried lightly hitting yamis unmoving arm.
The hand holding yugi let go without opening his eye moved slowly till it got to the thin hollow metal bars before tapping out in morse code "is this a dream?"
"it's not I'm sorry we didn't work faster yami… we told the doc's everything you'll live they got you on some drugs your illness is a mild one apparently and its treatable you aren't a carrier so you can't pass it to anyone too…" Akefia said gently helping yami sit up, the tall tanned tricolour haired boy still refusing to open his eye.
Yugi leant over and kissed his beloveds lips shocking the other on reflex opening his eye. The crimson orb swimming with tears as the fake one stayed still with its sightless gaze the eye matching the real ones colour in full.
"ii'm sorry… I'm sorry…. I wanted to but I'm sorry." He started to sob barely managing to sign.
"shhhh its ok there there now we know. Your safe now. There there…. Akefia go get jiisans and the doctor ok?" yugi whispered gently hugging his nearly identical lover.
Akefia nodded standing up with ryou who moved to guard the door, running down the hallway to where 'gramps' as they were told to call Solomon and the doctors where talking about yamis conditions and the types of care he would need when he did wake. Most of which had already being prepared and Solomon had the medicines set up for the young teen.
"Gramps Yami woke yugi and the others are trying to relax him yam's started crying at first thinking it was a dream then started to apologise." Akefia said bursting into the room the doctors stand pulling out a few phones to make the necessary calls while the head doctor and Solomon followed Akefia back to the room.
On arriving to find yugi had almost finished subduing yami who sat upright clinging on to yugi shaking numb from his tears.
"Atemu. My names Dr. Valentine you may call me by my first name the rest of the hospital does, my first names Mai and I know I should consider changing it not a very subtle name is it? I'm the head of this ward and have been put in charge of you and your friends medical care from his point ok?" mai said slowly and gently bending down to look him at eye level.
Yami nodded into yugi's shirt.
"now then first I'm going to answer some questions you will want to hear then there's some news for you ok?" mai pause so yami could nod again before starting. " now first off your sti was mild you'll need to have five tablets daily for five months then we can run a few more tests, your left eye is glass we couldn't save it but we have got several courses for you to take that will help you deal with that. While you were out Orichi was sentence life imprisonment no bail and we took some samples of your blood then check your fathers medical history your father was little yugi's uncle his mother's older brother who vanished after eloping with a young woman. Mr. Solomon mouto has said that he will take care of you as he is your grandfather and has adopted you but hasn't changed your name that up to you he has also taken full time custody of your friends and cousins your father married the youngest Kiaba twin they eloped and had you while your other aunt was pregnant with seto and Seth. " mai said telling yami of all the information the hospital could find.
"we've been told to call him gramps while you and shortie call him jiisans. We each have rooms ok you and the shortie shared ok?" bakura said standing next to his usually strong friend.
Yami looked up slowly regaining his normal attitude looking both mai and 'jiisans' in their eyes.
"when can I leave here? ii hate hospitals." He signed looking down.
"well I would be very worried if you said you liked them my boy." Grandpa mouto laughed.
"that depends on how quickly you can let us run a check-up/ after that some people need to have form signed then your free ok? Now don't go scarring that face up anymore your no longer alone in the night ok? Atemu?" mai said standing.
"now. And ok." He signed with a nod looking at yugi with a deep breath.
After carefully helping yami out of the bed the doctors ran a full exam on him. Frist cataloguing his height , weight, mass, then his strength and moveability his heart and blood pressure, running both blood and urine tests. They went over after realising the multiple conditions partial blindness, inability to speak and sti related sickness handing over pamphlets and books over to his paternal grandfather. Once all that was done he was allowed to sit down to deal with psychology and school related tests seeing whether they could send him to a regular school like his friends hoped. They said as long as he kept a white board or a note pad to answer then he may as long as the school was notified of all his conditions then he may start within the week. However he was order to stay for a one nights observation the others were sent home to tell the other and do their homework.
