Chapter 11

Yugi was sitting in the park when Joey and Tristan came upon him.

"Alright Yugi, this attitude is gonna end," Joey said.

Yugi looked up and noticed Joey and Tristan, "What do you want?"

"Yugi, something is going on with you. We as your friends would like to know what it is so we can help you," Tristan said sitting next to Yugi on the bench.

"It's none of your business so leave me alone. You can't help so don't even try."

"Did you and Yami have some sort of argument? Is it really worth it to be getting that angry over? I mean when me and Serenity have arguments we usually try to work it out by the next day."

Yugi got red in the face and stood up, "You don't know shit! Stop acting like you can help me, cause you can't! I don't need pity and I don't need your 'self-help' bullshit. Leave. Me. The fuck. Alone!"

Yugi stalked off leaving Joey and Tristan staring at each other confused. Stupid idiots, they don't know anything. Thinking they can help. What do they know?

"Hey, Yugi."

Yugi looked up and saw Mai smiling down at him.

"Fuck off."

Yugi left Mai with a sad look on her face.


Yami was sitting on the beach thinking about what Mai said. He noticed Yugi's behavior and he knew he was the cause of it. I can't. Yugi deserves so much better than me.

"Yami?"

Yami turned and saw Yugi, "Hey, Yugi."

"What are you doing here?"

"Nothing, just thinking. What's up?"

"Nothing. I just saw you sitting here and I wanted to see you."

"Oh. Do you need a ride somewhere?"

Yugi shook his head, "No, but can I ask you something?"

"Sure."

Yugi sat next to Yami on the sand. He hesitated for a minute.

"Yugi? What did you wanna ask me?"

"Um, I know you said you never would love me like that, but…um, did you ever? Love me like that? At least a little?"

Yami sighed; he so didn't want to talk about this. He looked at Yugi and noticed how sad he looked and knew he was about to hurt him even further but he would not give into this. Not anymore.

"No. I didn't. I'm sorry, Yugi, but it must have been a part of your imagination to think something like that."

Yugi's eyes teared up and his lip quivered. He quickly stood and ran away before he cried in front of his brother. Yami sighed.

"I'm sorry, Yugi."

Mai who overheard and saw everything was mad. She stalked over to Yami and slapped him in the face.

"Ow! What the fuck was that for?"

"How dare you, Yami Mutou!"

"Mai-"

"No! That's enough! You fix this. And you do it now!"

Yami shook his head, "Look, Mai, I know you're trying to help and I appreciate it and usually I always take your advice but I can't do it this time. Yugi needs to get over loving me."

"Are you nuts! Yugi will never get over loving you. Why are you doing this to him? Yugi loves you and cares about you."

"Because, he doesn't deserve me."

"Why do you think Yugi doesn't deserve you?"

Yami groaned, "He just doesn't. He deserves someone who can treat him better."

Mai slapped Yami again.

"Ow!"

"You stupid idiot! No one can love and treat Yugi better than you. God, Yami, why can't-"

Mai was cut off by the shrill sound of Yami's cell phone. Yami pulled it out of his pants and answered it.

"Hello, Grandpa.

"Get your ass to the hospital, now!"

Yami never heard his grandfather swear, "Grandpa, what's going on?"

"Your brother is there. Joey and Tristan took him."

"What! What happened?"

"I don't know. I am on the way to the hospital now. Meet me there."

"Okay, Grandpa. I'm on my way," Yami said and shut the phone.

"What's going on?"

"Yugi's in the hospital. Joey and Tristan took him there. Grandpa's on the way over there and he doesn't know what happened."

"Well let's head over there."

Yami nodded and the two of them headed toward Yami's car.


Yami and Mai burst into the hospital and immediately spotted Yami's grandfather, Joey and Tristan sitting in the waiting room.

"What happened? Is he okay? Tell me he's okay."

"Calm down, Yami. We're waiting for the doctor now. We haven't heard anything."

Mai turned to Joey, "Honey, what happened? Mr. Mutou told Yami that you and Tristan took him to the hospital."

Joey nodded, "Tristan and I went to the game shop to try and talk to Yugi about this morning."

"And when we got there the door was opened so we suspected a burglary and we found Yugi on the floor of his bedroom," Tristan continued.

"We thought he was dead. So I felt a pulse but it was weak. So we decided to call an ambulance and that was…"

"…When I noticed the bottle."

"What bottle?" Yami asked.

"They looked like sleeping pills," Tristan said.

"Sleeping pills?" Mai asked.

Joey nodded, "Yeah and half the bottle was gone. That's when we really decided to call an ambulance."

"Thank goodness you did," Solomon said.

Yami sank into a chair. His baby brother tried to kill himself? Yugi would never do that. Was Yugi really that hurt? Yami didn't really have any time to dwell on those questions cause the doctor suddenly came out. Yami jumped up and ran to the doctor.

"How is he doc? Is he gonna be alright?"

"Yes. Yugi will be fine. We pumped his stomach to get rid of the pills. He should be fine, although I would prescribe that he take it easy for the next week."

"When can we take him home?" Solomon asked.

"I would like to keep him overnight just to be sure there were no side effects of the pills that could affect him."

Solomon nodded, "May we see him?"

"Of course, follow me."

Every one followed the doctor to Yugi's room. Yami noticed how small and pale his brother looked.

"Hey, Yugi, how you feelin' buddy?" Joey asked.

"Like I got ran over," Yugi smiled.

"What the heck were you thinking? Taking a bunch of sleeping pills?" Solomon asked his grandson.

Yugi turned to Yami and glared at him. Yami looked shocked. Please tell me he was that mad at me that he tried to kill himself.

"Dude, trying to kill yourself was not cool," Tristan said.

"Whatever. You should've just left me. I have nothing to live for anymore."

"That's not true, sweetheart. You have so much to live for," Mai said.

Yugi shook his head and glared at Yami, "Not anymore."

He's blaming this on me? It's not my fault. "Its not my fault you tried to kill yourself."

"Fuck off, Yami. It is so your fault."

"Yugi, you will watch your language."

"Sorry, grandpa."

Mai grabbed Yami's arm and pulled him out in the hall.

"I can't believe he's blaming me for that."

"Yami, you hurt him so of course he's gonna blame you."

"Mai, it wasn't my fault."

Mai sighed, "Yami, you rejected him over and over again. He's been hurting for weeks and I guess today was the last straw. I told you that Yugi was gonna hurt himself. You need to fix this."

"Mai, I can't. I just…can't do it."

Mai growled and used strength that Yami didn't know she had and slammed him against the wall. "What will it take to get you to see that Yugi won't get better without you? Yugi needs you and although you don't wanna admit, you need him too. Either you fix this or…"

Yami didn't want to think about what Mai would do. He nodded.


Yugi was sitting on his bed reading a book since that's all he was really allowed to do. His grandfather kept from school for the week and he was bored as hell. Just then Yami pushed open the door.

"Hey, Yugi, got your homework," He said handing Yugi some books.

"Thanks."

"Sure. Hey, where's grandpa?"

"Don't know. Said he was going out. Probably at Miko's."

Yami nodded and sat down on his bed and pulled out his History book and started on some homework. He knew he had to fix their broken relationship, but he didn't know how. He had a feeling that Yugi would never believe anything he would say. He sighed, he had to try.

"Yugi?"

"What?"

"Can we talk?"

"About what?"

"Why you took those pills."

"Really? You wanna know? Okay fine, because I wanted to kill myself. Happy?"

"Pussycat, why?"

Yugi gasped. Yami called him pussycat? He shook his head. Just because Yami called him pussycat doesn't mean anything.

"I have nothing to live for. You took it all away from me. I loved you and you hurt me."

"Yugi…"

"First you said no, then you said yes and promised me that you wasn't just indulging me and then you told me that you didn't love me and never did."

Yami sighed, "So you decided to take sleeping pills because you were mad at me?"

"Yes."

"That was a stupid idea."

"Fuck you!"

"Yugi…"

"No, shut up! I fucking hate you!"

Yami sighed and went downstairs to get him something to eat. Well that went well, yeah right. This is gonna take longer than I thought.

TBC...

Me: So what do you think?

Max: Yami is an idiot.

Me: No one asked you, Max.

Max: So?

Me: *groans*