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Our High School
Chapter 10/? -
Shadows of the Fire
It was all rather peaceful...That is, until Kyla started screaming. Her scream made everyone jump up in fright, only to see that Atemu was already trying to calm her down. To them, he didn't look sure of what method to take, or whether to hide his ears from the assault of the noise she was making.
"Mana...! Mana...! What is wrong...!" Atemu yelled at her over her screaming.
Kyla looked to him, with fear evident in her eyes. She stilled her screaming into a whimper as tears ran down her cheeks.
"I can't see...!" Kyla cried as Atemu blinked and the rest of the group crowded around.
"Mana—"
"No, I can see you and everyone else in this room! But I can't see...!" Kyla cried.
"Have you been blocked out, or...?"
"I know what being blocked out is...! It happened half way through your duel with Yuugi-san!"
They all blinked at her.
"You saw that...?" Atemu asked of her sternly, and she nodded, and he looked as if he realised something. "So that was why you were crying back then, you saw what happened but didn't understand..."
Kyla nodded, Yuugi looked between the two with a start of a concerned frown.
"That must have been hard..." Atemu started but ended up getting whacked by the very girl he was trying to calm. "Hey...!"
"Don't get started with me!" Kyla nearly shouted at him while pointing directly at him. "...I'm not sure who felt worse at the time—"
"Okay, okay..." Atemu cut across her. "So you're not being blocked out, and nothing's moving...?"
Kyla glared at him for cutting her off, but nodded to his question. "It's like a dark blanket."
"Ah, too much Shadows..." Atemu responded and Kyla blinked as he got up and searched around to find Yuugi, and then walked over to him.
"Ano...?" Yuugi sounded as Atemu placed his hand on his forehead and he blinked several times. "Uh, Mou Hitori no Boku, what...?"
Atemu removed his hand and looked thoughtful. "You seem fine, do me one favour, and don't wonder of on your own, okay...?"
Yuugi blinked, but nodded even though he didn't understand, even when Atemu praised him and patted him on the head.
They all turned to the door to see Marik standing there, who looked as if he had dressed in a hurry, and had run a long way.
"What the hell is up...?" He shouted angrily at them. "Do you have any idea what time it is...! I could hear you from all the way over from the graves!"
Kyla huffed angrily. "Obviously not, you see if you know the time!"
"Sorry, Marik," Atemu started, and turned to face him, "But Mana stopped seeing because there is too much Darkness forming." Atemu told him, who blinked in what looked like both confusion and worry, but he quickly looked to Yuugi who blinked, then back to Atemu.
"Is Yuugi alright...?" He asked, momentarily forgetting that if Atemu could not remember he would be severely confused about the question.
Atemu sighed. "For the moment he is."
Yuugi blinked more so. "Why are you all worrying about me...?"
They all turned to him. "You have no darkness in you...if you had any darkness, Aibou; it was taken by me—"
Marik nearly tripped over himself. "You remember...?"
Atemu turned to glare at him, and Marik backed down and stayed quiet.
"That is why we are concerned, we don't need to worry about Marik, because, well..." Atemu trailed off and looked to Marik awkwardly.
Marik rolled his eyes. "I'm evil, I know, we all get it." He ended sighing.
"….I wasn't going to say it like that, but, thank you in any case. And we don't have to worry about Bakura Ryo, because Yami no Bakura, being the evil man that he was, tainted his soul." Atemu responded looking thoughtful.
The group blinked. "But Bakura-kun isn't mean...?"
Atemu nodded. "Right, and that's why we don't have to worry about him."
"Kay..." Yuugi started making them all look to him, and to see that he had his hand out and was counting on his fingers like a check list. "No wondering about in the Shadows..." He checked out one finger. "No wondering off on my own..." He checked another finger, and then went to point to the other one. "...Um...?" He looked indecisive and looked to Atemu for help, who chuckled and shrugged.
"You'll get more as we go along. How about no trusting my father...?"
Yuugi brightened and counted another finger for his list. "No talking to bad strangers who want to take over the world. There! Done...!" Yuugi announced with a conquering smile.
Atemu wasn't the only one who ended up laughing.
.
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It didn't take Atemu long to set up a fire in their corner house once Yuugi sneezed and Kyla commented it was cold. A few of the others sniffled just as the flames were brought into life.
"That's better, no one does this better then you, Yami." Kyla said while smiling appreciatively at him.
"Thank Shimon for that for teaching me after I got lost in the desert while hunting..." Atemu muttered as he sat down. He started to stoke the fire with a piece of tinder wood and noticed Kyla pouted. "What...?"
"I can't go and thank him." Kyla sighed.
Atemu blinked. "Of course you can't. He's been dead for awhile...Thank him in spirit." Kyla brightened and nodded. "I'm not even going to ask how you knew about him..." He muttered, but looked to see Kyla giggle.
"Memory world, silly...!" Kyla announced.
Atemu threw the piece into the fire and hit his forehead with the palm of his hand. "You saw that too...? Tell me now, what DIDN'T you see...?" He demanded of her a little angry.
Kyla huffed defensively. "Not much, too many Shadows, I was glad that Yuugi-san seemed alright there though..."
"You aren't the only one." Atemu muttered in response.
They all looked to see that Atemu now looked thoughtful and they all saw Kyla edge away a bit at the look. Eyes widened as Atemu set out to touch the fires flame.
"Ah—!" Yuugi started but was stunned silent as the flames seemed to not hurt him, and he started to draw what looked like hieroglyphs. They stayed afloat and glowed in the air as he wrote them. The pictures were of in two halves; one seemed to be circled in, and carried three different looking birds. The other half was free floating, with a symbol that had what looked like two cups. He then seemed to cross them all out and draw the fire downwards then moved the line upwards, and seemed to want them to move upwards. If this was the desired effect, nothing happened, only the glyphs shimmered as if they wanted to work. Atemu sighed, and then waved his hand over them as they faded into smoke, causing them all to blink.
"Not good...?" Kyla asked of him, and he shook his head.
"I thought that I might be able to get rid of the Shadows, but obviously, not even my name can help..." Atemu announced as he crossed his arms across his chest, and to everyone else he seemed to pout.
"What? No rain...?" Kyla asked, and Atemu glared at her, as she laughed.
"I didn't mean for that to happen!" Atemu growled at her, and she nodded mockingly at him.
"Ano...what just happened...?" Yuugi asked of them, and Kyla giggled again.
"Yami tried to rid the darkness by writing his name and the command for the darkness to depart..." Kyla started, and Yuugi looked to Atemu.
"You can do that...?" Yuugi asked eyes wide.
"It obviously didn't work." Atemu grumbled, still pouting.
"Naw, there, there, it just means your father is doing it–"
"Don't you think I know that?" Atemu snapped at her, and she nodded, and looked as if she was expecting him to snap at her, but she looked back to Yuugi, who as well as the others, looked well beyond confused.
"We know that Yami's name works because he made it rain by commanding it to." Kyla told.
Atemu huffed. "It's not like I meant it to rain! They were all complaining that it was too hot because the drought was too long...! Then they all went around thinking that I was some kind of God..."
Kyla blinked. "Um...Yami...You were a God...?"
"Shut up." Atemu snapped at her.
"Yes, Ouji..." Kyla replied quickly to him, and smartly shut up.
They all watched as Kyla got up and left, but they quickly looked to Atemu who shrugged.
"Where is she going...?" Anzu asked him.
"Going to check on the paroles, most likely, considering she can't see them..." Atemu said reminding them that Kyla couldn't see what would come, anything was to happen, and they wouldn't know of it before hand.
"Oh..."
With that said, Atemu blinked and was seemingly reminded of something, and he to, got up.
"Would you mind waiting here, for Mana...? I need to check on something..." Atemu asked, and they all nodded. "...Aibou, mind coming along...?" He asked but didn't seem sure if he should have, but Yuugi brightened up as he nodded and got up.
"So, where are we going...?" Yuugi asked of Atemu, after they had walked awhile and falling in-step with Atemu as they left the corridor from the house they were staying in.
"We're going to see my mother, seeing as such she didn't come and find me." Atemu responded.
"Ano..." Yuugi started in alarm while blinking.
"Don't worry, she won't be anywhere near my father, I wouldn't have asked you to come along if she was." Atemu told him, and Yuugi visibly calmed down, making Atemu chuckle at him.
"...But why are we going to go see her...?" Yuugi asked, still not understanding.
Atemu chuckled again. "Just to clear a few things, then find Mana's mother..." He trailed of as if he was thinking.
Yuugi smiled. "Sounds like a plan...!" He told happily.
Atemu chuckled. "...If you say so, Aibou."
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