Disclaimer: Don't own Yu-Gi-Oh and I probably never will.
Warnings: Shounen-ai, maybe some swearing, and a little violence.
This is an AU and the characters will be OOC (Don't complain to me that they are different)
Last time: Jou had been kidnapped!
School was starting soon and Seto didn't know what to do. If he followed the address would Jou even be there? A knocking on the door brought him back out of his thoughts and when he opened the door it was Otogi standing there waiting for him as usual. "You're slow hurry up!" Otogi said pulling him out the door and to school. Yugi met Seto before school started excitedly chattering, "Yami said he would take me to the aquarium this Sunday! I can't wait to go! What should I wear? He says I look nice with my black tank top and blue jean shorts…Should I dress nicer?" Seto tried to smile and say, "That's great. You have to tell me all about it after you go. You should probably wear the blue jean shorts and that dark purple tank top with that black leather belt accessory."
"Are you okay?" Yugi asked concerned.
"Just fine you don't have to worry about me," Seto replied smiling half heartedly.
"Okay if you say so…I just had to tell you though," Yugi said worried. At lunch Seto tried to skip and go find Jou but Otogi insisted that they never ate together anymore so he had to stay since he wouldn't shut up. Before he could even think of skipping the club Yami came up to him and said, "I need your help with something."
"With what?" Seto asked getting annoyed.
"Well Yugi and I are going to the aquarium this Sunday and I wanted to know what kind of gift he might like in case I pick something totally useless," Yami replied. Seto sighed and said, "As long as it comes to you I don't think Yugi will care what you get or if you get anything at all. He just wants to spend time with you."
"Yes, but I really want to get him the perfect gift since it's our first official date!" Yami explained.
"How about getting him something unique that has a deep meaning to it. Like those necklaces that are carved into whatever shape you want and the color expresses the emotion. I know he likes the color magenta," Seto offered.
"Thanks!" Yami replied and then asked, "Are you coming to the club?"
"No, I don't feel too well…" Seto said leaving Yami standing there wondering. Again he tried to go find Jou but Kyoko pulled him to work saying, "Don't just stand there when you have a job and are about to be late!"
"I don't have to go for another hour," Seto replied angrily. Even though he had said that he had still been dragged to work by Kyoko who said, "Do you have anything better to do?" Seto didn't want to say that Jou was missing so he replied, " I need to go shopping for groceries." When Seto arrived early Mika said, "Great you're here! Today is the day you get to wear the winter uniform!"
"We actually have a uniform and not just some costume?" Seto asked surprised.
"No, but I just wanted to make an outfit!" Mika replied. Quickly Seto changed into his 'uniform' which was black khaki like shorts, and a purple muscle shirt.
"This is the so called uniform?" Seto asked looking in the mirror at it.
"Isn't it great? It took me a long time to make all of them for everyone. Hopefully the customers like it," Mika said enthusiastically.
"Of course they will because you rock at making clothes," Seto assured her. Immediately after Seto put on his uniform he had customers and was busy serving everyone as quickly as he could. When it was finally quieted down he sat down at one of the tables.
"Slacking off?" Kyoko asked as Seto sat down.
"I don't slack it's just finally quiet so I'm taking my break," Seto replied.
"That's basically slacking," Kyoko said teasingly.
"Unless you want me to take your hot chocolate and dump it on your head and call you an asshole, shut up! Today is just not my day," Seto said in his most threatening voice. She backed off a little saying, "So what put you in such a bad mood?"
"Nothing you need to know," Seto replied. Mika came over saying, "Mind helping us with a small problem Seto?"
"What kind of problem?" he asked. Mika paused, "Well…." Apparently a customer was harassing one of the waitresses and wouldn't stop even though she told him to let her go. He was about 6' 3" and you could tell he was slightly muscular. The guy kept saying, "Come on honey." Seto tapped his shoulder and said, "Please leave you are causing a commotion" in a kind voice. He looked at him and said, "You're kind of nice looking to." Now that crossed the line with Seto. Not only was the guy hitting on a waitress he was hitting on him! Seto stopped using his kind voice and threatened, "Don't touch me or any other waitress/waiter here because if you do I'll make sure you won't be able to walk or talk again. Leave now before I have to call the authorities on you."
"You think you're so tough boy ha!" the guy said laughing. Kyoko came over saying, "Leave him alone!" Like he didn't even care they guy said, "Shut up bitch!" and tried to punch Kyoko. Seto grabbed his wrist before he could and said, "Apologize and then leave you're not welcome here." The guy just rolled his eyes. Seto turned toward Mika and with his best voice told her, "I'm going to make this guy leave don't worry I'll be back soon." Without much effort Seto pulled the guy outside to the ally.
"Now apologize," Seto demanded his voice sounding demonic.
"No," he stated simply and tried to grab Seto, but instead Seto grabbed the man's wrist and broke it so it fell limp. The man bit back the pain and asked, "Is that all you got, boy?" Seto punched his jaw numbing it with blood spilling from his split lip.
"I don't see how any girl would want to even think of going out with you and that nasty face," Seto taunted. The guy lunged at him and Seto nearly broke his leg causing the guy to fall. "I told you I would break you leg so you wouldn't be able to walk and you jaw so you wouldn't be able to talk. I could actually finish but I don't want to get arrested for going too far unless you attack me again," Seto continued to taunt. He then left and walked back to work where everyone cheered him and the girl that the guy had been harassing thanked him. Work went by with no more problems after that and he could finally have time to go search for Jou.
According to the directions it was in some park in a cave or something Seto summarized since the directions were vague. Seto didn't exactly have time to explore the town much so he was somewhat lost. Looking at the directions Seto realized they were trying to get him lost and weren't that helpful. With each step Seto was getting more worried about Jou and it was getting late as the darkness settled over the town. Now he was in a forest and totally lost without a clue of how to find Jou swearing someone was watching him to find no one there. Seto decided it would be safer to head back toward the city and get directions than walk around without a destination. Checking the nearest convenience store Seto asked for directions to find that they didn't have any idea of where it was. 'That was helpful' Seto thought sarcastically. Just the thought of not finding Jou made Seto want to scream. On his way to continue the search he bumped into Yami and Yugi.
"Hi Seto!" Yugi said joyfully.
"Hello you two, nice night for a walk I didn't expect to see you here at this time," Seto responded as cheerfully as he could.
"Neither did we," Yami said completely surprised. An idea came to his head as Seto asked, "Do either of you two know where Moon and Sun Park is? It's really important I find it tonight." Both Yami and Yugi shook their heads no and Yugi said, "I have never even heard of a park like that." Seto became a little depressed and said, "Thanks anyway see you around" He walked away said and then suddenly had another idea. He thought that maybe he could fly high in the sky and find the place he was looking for. Seto first made sure to find an area where no one could see him take off and spread his wings because humans didn't know he existed. In the moonlight when he spread his wings the light reflected of the blood red wings causing it to shimmer. Quickly he flew up into the air and flew around scanning the area carefully just to find the place. Seto was getting tired and it was getting hard to see in the pitch blackness so he decided to go a little more north and try his luck there before taking a break. He flew closer and closer until he finally spotted a cave in the middle of the forest just waiting for him. He tried to fly to the cave but suddenly he was hit by something. Seto had passed out and fell out of the sky and into the forest below.
It was around dawn when Seto woke up and for a minute he forgot where he was and what he was about to do. He looked around and it clicked into place as he remembered everything that had happened. As he checked for injuries he noticed a big cut on his leg that looked to still be bleeding and several scratches and minor cuts everywhere. First he had to find his bag which had dropped with him when he fell. Seto checked all around on the ground and didn't find it. Then he looked up and saw that it was in a tree near the top dangling. Well he didn't have enough energy to fly so he would have to climb the tree. A few times Seto almost fell out of the tree while climbing to get the bag. Clumsily Seto tried to get down from the tree gently but suddenly he was falling. This time he might have died but he quickly grabbed onto the nearest branch straining his arm before dropping gently to the ground. It hurt a lot to move now but he was determined and just had to find Jou. In his bag he found his bandages which he always carried and wrapped them around his major cut and around his wrists and ankles to protect them.
With his leg in an okay condition he walked still remembering where he had last seen the cave. This was going to be a long walk and he was extremely tired, hungry, and aching but he just had to go on for Jou. Jou was like his life source and was one of very few things that made him happy. Finally he could see the mouth of the cave. Two guys were standing over it trying to prevent intruders from coming. "Oh well, I'm an invited guest," Seto said cracking his knuckles. The two guys turned and looked at him when they heard this. For a minute they were in disbelief before they snapped out of it and attacked Seto. He was so mad and full of adrenalin that just as easily as they attacked Seto dodged and smacked their heads together hard. They were instantly knocked out and as extra caution Seto broke their right legs. Quickly Seto descended into the cave leaving them behind to find Jou.
"He won't be coming to help you," Seto heard some voices say. Because of the dim lighting he could only see two figures talking to what appeared to be Jou locked in a cage. Seto looked at Jou closely and noticed he looked pretty banged up. "Yeah especially if he followed the directions we left," one of the voices said this one male. First Seto searched his bag for a knife since he also always carried one since he didn't know how dangerous his opponents would be. Even though Jou was beaten up he still managed to say, "Seto will come no matter what. You obviously don't know him that well to say otherwise." Seto smiled at Jou knowing him so well. His knife wasn't in his bag so Seto guessed it had dropped somewhere when he fell. 'Oh well' he thought creeping forward pressing against the wall closely.
"So what are you doing to Jou? You do realize for abducting him I'm going to hurt you until you scream?" Seto asked stepping into the open.
"What took so long?" Jou asked jokingly.
"How about I tell you later after we escape," Seto replied happy to see Jou was okay enough to joke. When he got a closer look at Jou's kidnappers Seto was more than a little surprised, but realized it made sense. Kyoko and Otogi obviously didn't like Jou so they had kidnapped him. "So it was you tow who did this," Seto said angrily. They backed away. "Did you think that with Jou gone you would have a chance? There is no way I would go out with anyone else and even if you had a very slight chance by doing this that's completely gone," Seto growled moving toward them.
Another voice called out, "It wasn't them who thought of this everything was planned by me." A beautiful girl demon walked out. She had blood red hair with black streaks and grey eyes. Jou's eyes widened as he shouted, "Lilith?!"
"You know her?" Seto asked staring at Jou.
"Yeah, we were best friends in the demon world and she was my uncles' neighbor," he replied still in disbelief and then asked Lilith, "Why?"
"Obviously I don't like that idiotic hybrid. He changed who you used to be," Lilith replied annoyed.
"What do you mean?" Jou asked a bit confused. Lilith sighed, "You used to never talk about other people and never cared much about others. We were together all the time until you met him!" Lilith's rage grew more and more as she talked.
"So you kidnapped Jou because you don't like me?" Seto asked raising an eyebrow.
"What else would I do? Those two fools wouldn't let me kidnap you so I figured I could just steal Jou from your grasp," Lilith responded.
"So basically you kidnapped Jou because you love him? That's messed up," Seto told Lilith. Kyoko and Otogi were stunned. Then Otogi looked at Lilith and pointed shocked shouting, "Your in love with Jou?"
"Isn't it obvious? Why else would she help you and hate me at the same time?" Seto said calmly.
"Smart boy, you're the first to figure it out. I hid it so well," Lilith said not even showing surprise. Jou was shocked since he had never known or was just oblivious since he loved Seto. "Anyways…" Lilith continued, "I can't allow a boy to get close to my precious Jou."
"Don't be jealous and he's mine not yours," Seto taunted.
"Shut up!" Lilith shouted. Everyone but Seto backed away from her. Lilith walked toward Seto and said, "He's mine and we'll always be together!" while trying to punch Seto but Seto dodged the attack easily.
"You do realize he's with me because he asked me out? Obviously he doesn't love you at all," Seto told her dodging punches and kicks that Lilith kept throwing. Finally Lilith couldn't take it anymore and out of her back pocket she withdrew a dart gun.
"Well since you insist that I can't have him neither can you! He'll be forever in a dream world," Lilith shouted. Seto was panicked at the thought of losing Jou. Lilith pulled the trigger and in an instant the person she hit fell to the ground unconscious.
"No!" cried a voice. It had been Jou's and he was crying. Seto had got hit protecting him and he couldn't do anything again. This painfully reminded him of the time when Seto cut his arm to give blood to the Lunatic Gate so he could safely travel to the demon world. "Not again, why does he always do this?" Jou whispered reaching for Seto's body, but the bars prevented him from coming close.
"What do you mean?" Kyoko asked still in shock.
"You wouldn't know would you? I don't want to say it…" Jou replied. Lilith was stunned. She was thinking irrationally when she shot and could have hurt Jou the one she says she loved. Falling to her knees she realized she would have hurt Jou. Not only that Seto obviously loved Jou more than her if he was willing to save Jou instead of himself like she would have done. She was ashamed and regretted what she just did.
"I didn't want him to get hit. Now he'll never wake up unless we can find a cure… He'll be asleep seeing either a dream or reliving childhood memories," Lilith whispered.
"You mean he'll remember all of his childhood?!" Jou asked not sure which emotion to pick. He was sad, angry and confused. His choice was sadness.
"Yes, why?" Lilith asked confused causing Jou to become even sadder.
"Now he'll remember how his mother died and all the torments he went through in childhood…" Jou explained the best he could. Silently Otogi let Jou out of the cage causing Jou to rush to Seto and hold him in his arms.
"His mom's dead?!" Kyoko, Otogi, and Lilith all asked together.
"And his dad but he never really knew him since he died before he was born…" Jou continued. A silence went throughout the room and Jou cried quietly.
In Seto's head:it was pitch black with no lights anywhere and he couldn't see anything. Then he turned around and saw a beautiful meadow filled with flowers of all kinds and the sun was out. Slowly he walked toward the meadow forgetting about himself and appearing younger as he walked. When he reached the meadow Seto had forgotten everything and looked around confused. Who was he? Where was he? What had he been doing? When did he get here? Why was he here? All these questions floated around in his head and he was getting dizzy. From behind a kind voice called, "Seto time to go home!" it was like he was a child again and only remembered what he knew then and nothing else. Of course he wanted to cry but not in front of his mom so he put on a fake smile and said, "HI mommy! Sorry I'm coming!" Seto called running toward the woman. His mom the women he had seen picked him up and carried him home saying, "I love you Seto it's okay."
When they got home a man was standing in front of the house with a flower in his hands. It was Izumi and he asked, "Yuki will you please go out with me?" for like the millionth time that month. As usual Yuki replied, "No, there is no other man that I will love besides Kira. Now if you excuse me we need to make dinner." Seto stuck his tongue out at the strange man and shut the door in his face locking it up tight.
Back in the cave they laid Seto down on a cot like bed. Jou was the only one by his bed since all of the others were feeling guilty so they were outside the cave trying to think of something to wake him up.
Seto was in his house making dinner in his dream along with his mother who did most of the work. "Mom, what kind of person was daddy?" he asked getting down the plates.
"Why do you want to know?" Yuki asked caught off guard.
"Well everyone keeps saying he was evil, and cruel. A lot of people said nasty things about him. They told me he was a demon. Your too nice to fall for a jerk so what kind of guy was he?" Seto asked again. His mom cried and said, "Sorry Seto it's my fault you get picked on. Yes, he was a demon but he was so understanding and saw the real me. His name was Kira. If I didn't have you I would be so lost," Yuki kept on crying. Seto patted her back and said, "Thanks for telling me. I'm proof that you two truly loved each other so don't feel sorry if I get picked on. I have the best parents ever so don't cry." At that moment Seto seemed like the adult. For days Seto tried her hardest after that to be the perfect child so his mom wouldn't be hurt by neighbor's comments.
Everyone in the cave still didn't have a clue as to what they should do to wake up Seto. By his bed Jou remembered all the moments they shared and when Seto truly smiled. He hardly ever saw Seto cry even when he was extremely depressed. When Seto did once he held him close not knowing what else to do. Jou had always admired Seto's strength and wanted to be with him and always protect him. He hated how sometimes he couldn't do anything and Seto protected him. Yet he knew he couldn't stop Seto from doing the dangerous things he did. 'If only he would wake up' Jou continued to think.
Seto was playing by himself when some neighborhood kids came up to him and gave evil grins. They had bruises from fighting each other. All of them picked up rocks and attacked him shouting, "Look it's Seto the half demon half angel!" Seto stood up and shouted, "So what if my dad was a demon? He's a lot nicer than you jerks!" A police officer came by asking the boys, "What's going on?" Some of them started crying and one said, "Seto started hitting us for no reason! We tried to defend ourselves but he wouldn't stop!" Seto stood with his mouth wide open and said, "That's not true! They attacked me with rocks after fighting each other!" The guard looked at him and said, "Don't make up lies to cover for yourself." Then he whispered to himself, "We should just get rid of him now." Seto heard him and ran to the meadow with no one stopping him. It was his secret place to hide when he wanted to cry without anyone knowing. Somehow his mom always knew when he was there and always came to get him. Immediately after crying he would smile brightly just for his mother.
It had been five days since Seto fell into his dream world. Jou would hardly eat anything and was constantly by his side. Lilith came up with the food and said, "You must really love him…I wish I knew of a cure to wake him up…If he ever wakes up I'll apologize."
"Don't say if. He will wake up I just know he will somehow," Jou said fresh tears escaping his eyes. Not knowing what to do Lilith walked away. Comforting people wasn't her forte especially since she had never seen Jou cry out of all the time they've known each other.
One day in his dream Seto woke up irritable. Everyone was at the morning market with most people talking about his 'misdeeds'. They only said the bad things which weren't true, and didn't even recognize when he did something good. He decided to steal an apple from a stand since he was hungry and didn't want to go home not thinking about the consequences. That same day earlier the guards had heard from the kids that he had beat them up, stole their money, wrecked everything, and cut a few small animals like frogs and cats. Of course the guards never tried to verify it they just saw the mess and went after him. Seto saw them and immediately ran not knowing what they had heard about him today. One guard was about to slice him but failed so Seto took a quick peek behind him and froze. He turned around fully to find his mother in the way blood dripping down her torso. "Mo…om…mom," he whispered in disbelief.
"Don't cry Seto this was my choice. You did nothing wrong I know you didn't. I…love you." His mom said before fainting from the blood loss and dying. In shock or disbelief Seto went limp and his eyes became dull and expressionless. Since he was no longer resisting arrest they had to arrest him and bring him to court. Yuki's blood was on his hands as they took him to Izumi. When he heard what happened he blamed Seto but no once did he shed a single tear for Yuki. The judge heard the guards comments and her past records along with a few 'witnesses'. He sentenced Seto to a month in prison before being put to death. If an angel had done the same things they only would have gotten a few years in prison, community service, and fines. None of it mattered to him though. After that his entire personality changed and they put him in the cell with Jou.
Jou was by Seto's side and it had been eleven days now. Lilith came in. "How did you meet him?" she asked finally after a long silence. Kyoko and Otogi were in the doorway listening to the conversation.
"Remember when I got arrested for fighting those angels?" Jou asked.
"I remember it was horrible and a stupid charge," Lilith answered confused. "So what happed? I heard you whisper not again but you wouldn't tell us…Does that have anything to do with it? Did something happen when you first met?" For a minute Jou was silent then he took a deep breath and started to tell the story:
I had been in jail for about a couple days or so I wasn't too sure. I woke up one morning and suddenly I had a cell mate. Apparently this was the only place they could fit him do to overcrowding. There was just something about him that was different and caused me to wonder. Out of curiosity I asked him how he ended up here. It was the first time he had spoken since he arrived there. Seto told me how everyone hated him and blamed him for stuff so he decided to steal an apple. Everyone had blamed him for those things because he was half angel half demon and they were completely angel. Kyoko was surprised the most by this. After that we got along better and I told him about what I did and when someone pushed me he broke their arm and fractured it. We become even closer after that when Seto suddenly told me a plan of how we could break out. It was the perfect plan and he assured me he knew of a place that would get me home while he would go to Earth. After escaping the cell we jumped out a window running at full speed when we touched the ground, and he said we would go to Lunatic Gate. The catch that I didn't know until later was that it needs blood to function properly. Seto cut his arm for the gate with the guards running at us in the distance, so he hugged me then pushed me through the gate. That was the last time I had seen him until now.
Jou finished his story sadly. Suddenly Kyoko burst through the door saying, "Hey I think I know where we can find the cure or how to make the cure!" Everyone except Jou decided to go see try to find the cure because he wouldn't leave Seto's side. Seto dreamed of the last time he had seen Jou before going to Earth while Jou had explained how they met. Then he fought the guards and went through the gate to Earth. After meeting Jou he had changed a little and felt something was missing. That was when Seto had learned he had loved Jou. Kyoko came into the room with some strange liquid about two hours after saying she had said she might know of a cure. Immediately Jou took it from her hands made a silent prayer and tried to give it to Seto. He had to tilt Seto's head back and open his mouth hoping Seto wouldn't choke while he made him drink it. Fifteen minutes after drinking it Seto's eyes fluttered open and he woke up unsure of where he was. Looking around he found Jou hugging him in relief. It took Seto awhile to remember what had happened but he still didn't get why he was in a bed.
"I was so worried dammit!" Jou said squeezing Seto tighter. In his ear Seto replied, "It's okay now you don't have to worry I'm fine…tired but fine."
"I'm so glad you woke up," Jou whispered. Seto smiled and confessed, "I remembered everything and how I felt when you had gone to the demon world. How I felt when you came back. Everything. I missed you so much it feels like it's been years since I last saw you."
"You've been asleep for eleven days…" Jou informed him.
"Yes, but that's eleven days without holding you in my arms. You better not leave after this," Seto replied.
"I wouldn't think of it," Jou whispered chuckling.
TBC!
Two more chaps to go! Or one since there's chapter eleven then the epilogue…I'm sorry it took so long to update but I had a cold, I'm on my period, and tennis. Well R&R!
