Here's the next chapter to this story. I know I should be working on At-Em-Oh, but there's a temporary delay due to working on Hanaski's deck. Anyways, I should be focusing on this anyways. Now, usually I get to the plot of a story right away, especially at this point, but this is like the retold version of Yu-Gi-Oh. At the beginning, there were like random events or episodes/chapters that had different plots or events. Though, you will find elements from the Yu-Gi-Oh manga. You will defiantly see it in the next chapter, because remember this: when Seto Kaiba first appeared, at least in the anime, it was his first day of school. Okay, now Yugi's first day of school, try to pretend that what happened in the first chapter was starting in that particular episode or chapter when Seto first appeared. THAT'S RIGHT! MANY EVENTS HAVE ALREADY HAPPENED! That means the guy on Death Row that went into Burger World had already happened, including other events like Shadi judging that Director and that professor guy. They're already dead at this point. Though, he will appear, just not at this exact moment. Review please!
Yugi woke up in an extremely tired state with back pains and more pains on his legs. He was trying to remember what happened and how he got here. The last he remembered, he was tied to a chair fighting with the leader of the gang that kidnapped him. After that, was a blank. He could barely see a thing. There was a blurry vision of shapes. He tried to try to figure out the shapes and what they were.
"Rest Yugi! You're still hurt!" A voice said that sounded echoy. Yugi felt a hand cover his eyes to block his vision.
"Where am I?" Yugi asked in a horse voice. "Who are you?"
"Rest Yugi! Everything's gonna be okay!" The voice reassured Yugi.
"What's happening?" Yugi asked, then felt a finger on his lips.
"Shhhhh rest," The voice whispered softly, then brushed his hand through Yugi's hair to relax the boy.
Yugi felt his body relaxing while feeling a gentle hand brush through his hair once more. He wanted to know who this voice was. He seemed friendly and wanting to help. Yugi felt, whoever this stranger was, perhaps a doctor, gently holding his hand as Yugi drifted off to sleep.
Yugi woke up again, this time on the floor. He yawned and discovered that he was no longer in the hospital anymore, but in a strange room. It looked like an office room with a desk, chair, rug, bookshelf, and several file drawers. The desk held pictures of Seto, other friends, Solomon, and Mokuba. Tea's picture was heart-shaped, which made Yugi wonder. It didn't look like his office, yet it was.
Yugi opened the desk drawer to find toys and games. Now, why would there be toys in a desk drawer? Yugi opened the file drawers to find sparkles, smile faces, and echoes of laughter of small children. Yugi closed it fast, finding confetti on his shirt that blew out from the drawer. He laughed at the sight of it, before catching himself and wondering why he did that. Yugi opened the top drawer to find the same thing.
"Okay, that was just weird," Yugi said to himself with narrowed eyebrows.
Then, Yugi realized something about the confetti. He saw that it wasn't sparkling from the reflection of the light. It seemed more like the remains of pieces of paper or photo. A photo of what? As Yugi's curious mind began wondering, he began seeing all the confetti creating the photo that it originated from... It was Gozoburro! Yugi gasped, then fell on his back. The picture turned back to confetti.
"Yugi, it's okay! You're just in your soul room!" That voice assured Yugi. He turned his head quicker than a jackrabbit and saw what looked to be a spitting image of himself.
"Who are you? Why are you here?" Yugi asked with furrowed eyebrows.
"Relax Yugi, I'm a friend!" Yami assured, quickly taking Yugi by both arms and getting him to relax. "Don't think negative thoughts!"
"Why?"
"This room seems normal, but your mind room works like a land mine for anything negative. It will destroy anything that's bad."
Yugi seemed surprised by this and asked, "why?"
"It's the way you think... I think. You seem to be the type that will destroy anything that makes you unhappy," Yami said.
"Are you implying that I'm selfish?" Yugi shouted before the drawers from every cabinet and the desk slapped opened and sharp razors and moving knives appeared ready to attack the Yugi look-alike.
The look-alike grabbed Yugi by the arm and quickly escaped from the room and closed the door before the sharp objects could get to the two. The Yugi twin glared at his others self before he claimed, "Careful Yugi! You start making negative thoughts about me and I'm dead!"
Yugi glared and said, "if that is my mind room, how did you even there in the first place?"
"You solved the puzzle, so I became a part of you. We both share one body, so..." Yami replied, pointing his face toward the door to his own mind room. "Yeah."
"So wait, you're invading my body? That's just wonderful!"
"Yugi, I never purposely came inside your body. I was trapped inside the puzzle for 3000 years without any memory of who I am or where I came from."
"Then is there a way you can get out? There is something called invading privacy and I would like less of that, Mr..."
"You can call me whatever you like. I have no memory of my name... I've been called Pharaoh," the spirit said with a shrug.
"Phar-" Yugi said before letting out a sigh. "Listen, whoever you are, why can't you just get out of my body?"
"I don't know how to reverse this and even if I did, I have nowhere else to go. Yugi, please... I..." the look-alike explained before letting out a sigh. He dropped to his knees. "If you don't want me, you can break the puzzle. It's... I suppose it's better than have you end up hating me and me fearing those things will destroy me."
Yugi's eyebrows rose and saw fear and anguish in those violet eyes mixed with slight crimson. Was Yugi really this fearsome and selfish? A pledge of guilt fell upon Yugi and he knelt down and took this look-alike into his arms. The spirit was astounded by this reaction. Had Yugi ever hugged anyone besides Seto Kaiba?
"I'm sorry for my reaction. If you have nowhere else to go, y-you can stay. Just... don't bother me when I'm working and don't get into my soul room and be nosy or anything," Yugi told the spirit, feeling his tight embrace.
"Thank you, Yugi," the spirit whispered with gratefulness. He then took Yugi by both arms after wiping the tears from his eyes, which were of joy. "I promise I won't be trouble. Anyways, I think it should be safe to get back in your soul room now."
The spirit opened the door to Yugi's soul room and everything was back to normal. Yugi smiled and made a loud sigh as the spirit sat on the floor cross-legged. Yugi sat by him with a curious look in his eyes. Yugi wanted to know who this guy was and what to call him. He suggested Pharaoh, but that didn't seem right. He seemed to be dark and mysterious by first glance.
"How about I call you Yami?" Yugi asked as the spirit looked at his partner curiously. "Pharaoh seems too weird. Though, it could be a clue to who you are. Still, Yami seems like you. You're dark and mysterious and Yami is Japanese for dark. What do you think?"
"I suppose it does fit me huh? Very well. Yami it is," Yami said with a short smile.
"So, what's been happening during the times when I blacked-out? Since you're gonna be living with me from now on, I want to know what's been going on and what crap you were making me do."
"I've only taken over whenever you were in trouble. The first time was against a gang trying to rape Tea. I played a game of dominoes and gave him a penalty game for his crimes. The second time was against the people that kidnapped you. You seemed to be doing fine at first, then you fell two stories and passed out. I took over to finish the job before calling the police."
"At least you thought with your head the second time," Yugi said sarcastically.
"I'll let you in on what happens when I'm around from now on. I usually don't take over, so I doubt if there will be much problem, especially since you took care of those guys on your own without my help."
"Thanks. You know, you're okay!"
"Anyways, I think your brother just arrived. You should probably wake up," Yami said as Yugi snapped out of his mind room and woke up in the hospital.
Yugi, this time, was able to see every shape of the hospital room perfectly. He saw Seto staring at him with serious looking eyes. Yugi blinked, then sighed deeply as Seto made a humphing noise.
"Congratulations Yugi, you just made me cancel work thanks to your little accident," Seto snorted.
"That really shows you care," Yugi said sarcastically with folded arms. "I almost got killed, Seto. The least you can do is ask me if I'm alright!"
"We've been through this before, Yugi. When working in the businessfield, there's no room for brotherly love."
"Okay, so if I die right now with that bullshit being the last words you say to me, you can just feel just freakin' wonderful that my existence has been wiped from existence, so things like this won't happen again! Like you need me to be any part of your life!" Yugi snapped before turning his gaze away from Seto, not noticing two sorrowful eyes staring right at him.
Seto couldn't stop the lump on his throat from developing, one that was extremely huge. He couldn't show brotherly love, but he didn't want Yugi to think he hated his own brother. Seto scrunched his lips and slowly closed his eyes while thinking of what to say to Yugi.
"Just because I can't show brotherly love doesn't mean I don't feel it."
"Thanks for the assurance," Yugi muttered bitterly while squeezing his eyes shut, trying not to cry. He wished deep inside that his Baba was like the one from the orphanage, who always looked out for him.
Yugi wanted to shut out his brother ever arriving here. He wanted to believe Seto really did care and didn't say any of those things. Maybe he really was so selfish to destroy any unhappy thoughts or things. Would Seto's picture be ripped to shreds like Gozoburro's? He didn't want to feel like this, but Seto was turning into Gozoburro by every minute and second.
Seto felt his lump grow bigger and sighed while resting his head on Yugi's bedside. He hated the thought that Yugi would think that he never cared when he really did. Now, he wasn't sure if he wanted these affections to disappear or stay. He hadn't noticed how much his nose and eyes were twitching. Things were never like this between him and Yugi at the orphanage. They would play and laugh together. Now, the only thing they did was work together. It felt satisfying now to feel the torturing whip Gozoburro would use to force him to study.
Yugi had not noticed, but Yami's spirit appeared feeling sorrowful about the two brothers. Yami took Yugi's hand and dragged it over to Seto's free hand, which became unnoticed to the brown-haired teen. Yami slipped Yugi's hand under Seto's hand to see what would happen. Both teens seemed to be too busy and stressed to know what had just happened.
Yugi made a huge sigh, then stared up at the ceiling before noticing his hand under Seto's hand. Two eyebrows rose, then a smile appeared. Yugi turned his hand to grab Seto's hand and slightly squeeze it, giving Seto a surprise. He began wondering how Yugi's hand appeared under his own. He popped his head up, not realizing he had bloodshot eyes. Yugi had his eyes closed and was smiling as a moan escaped from his nose while squeezing Seto's hand.
Seto cursed himself for letting Yugi get away with this sort of act, but couldn't afford to see him hurt like that again. He'd always be Seto's Spiky. Seto loved the way Yugi used to smile all the time, the way he laughed and giggled, and acted like the world provided happiness and nothing could go wrong. He decided to pretend he was asleep and wait until he was sure Yugi drifted to sleep. Though, Yugi didn't go back to sleep completely. He was too busy taking in the security that Seto did care about him.
"I love you, Spiky," Yugi heard Seto whisper, who thought his brother was deep asleep. Just hearing that gave Yugi pure joy.
"I... love you too, Baba," Yugi muttered horsily as Seto froze stiff, realizing that Yugi heard his words. Seto then, shook it off, seeing that he could always tell Yugi that he only dreamed hearing it. It was only when Seto was sure Yugi was completely asleep that he left the hospital, so Yugi could rest up.
