A/N: Thank you all for reading/the reviews/favorites/follows. I love you so much! It means the world to me. Your continued support on this story and of me is appreciated! Yes this is Bandit Keith from the anime. I figured after Yugi stood up to him, I would actually turn him into a half way decent guy for this story. I kind of needed him for this chapter. You'll see why. Lol. I hope you like it!

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"It's no use Yugi," Keith came back to where Yugi sat; he groaned as he lowered himself next to the violet eyed man. His breath came in shallow gasps as he tried to catch his breath. "There's too many rocks and some are way too heavy to lift. We are going to need to wait to be rescued."

Yugi grit his teeth, /there's got to be something we can do/. He took a deep breath as he began to stand. Blinding pain shot through him; his body protesting each move he made.

"What are you doing? Sit down!" Kieth growled at his petite counterpart.

"Have to find…" Yugi winced in pain, "a way out."

"You're not going anywhere like that. We don't even know the extent of all of your injuries. Sit down, Yugi. Give me a few minutes to rest and I will look around a bit more."

"I can't just sit there and do nothing," Yugi placed some weight onto his broken leg and collapsed as the pain shot through him. His head spun sending his world into a topsy turvey existence.

"That is exactly what you are going to do," Keith growled back at Yugi. He supported Yugi's head in one arm as he opened the water canteen getting ready to pour it into Yugi's mouth, "Drink." Yugi took a sip and began coughing instantly. After the coughing fit he sighed and rested his head on Kieth's arm. Kieth saw a glisten in the hand which Yugi just used covered his mouth from the coughing fit. The blonde turned Yugi's hand slightly to get a better look. Crimson liquid pooled in the palm.

"You can put me down now, Kieth," Yugi whispered.

"Shit, Yugi, you've been coughing up blood! Why didn't you say anything?!"

Yugi laughed, "It wouldn't have made a difference. We are still trapped here."

"You could have internal bleeding. Do you know how dangerous that is?" The blond gently lay Yugi's head down on his supply bag creating a makeshift pillow.

"Yes, I know." Yugi swallowed attempting to get the metallic taste of blood out of his mouth. He heard Keith stand and begin roaming around, "What are you doing?"

"Searching for another way out." Kieth's voice was further away than before, "You stay there and stop trying to move." Yugi chucked before wincing and holding his chest. It hurt to talk and it was almost excruciating to laugh.

\/\/\/

"Yugi!"

Violet eyes opened. He had dozed off at some point. He felt worse now than before. His petite form protesting every little movement by sending blinding pain coursing through him, "Mmm?" Yugi gulped not able to produce any further vocal sound.

"I think I may have found a way out." Kieth said as he came to kneel next to Yugi, "The problem is there is a ledge that we will need to climb up to. I can hoist you most of the way, but you will need to use your upper body strength to pull yourself up."

Yugi shook his head, "I'm not going to be able to do it," Yugi croaked out, "I can't move."

"You can do it, Yugi! It's going to hurt like hell, but I know how strong you are. You've proved that countless times. You have to help me help you!" Keith turned around; his back now to Yugi, "Grab on." He instructed looking at Yugi over his shoulder.

Yugi struggled to sit up as he locked his arms around Keith's shoulders. The tall blonde slowly stood holding Yugi's arms in place as he did so. Yugi growled low in his throat as the movements of being lifted shifted things around in his body. Un-shed tears burned his eyes. He gulped as he swung both legs around Kieth's waist. He cried out biting down on his arm as pain shot through his broken leg. Keith moved one arm down and around to support Yugi's broken limb.

"Hang on. The ledge is a little ways further into the cave." Kieth shifted bending down to grab their supply bags.

It took Kieth over an hour to walk back to the opening with carrying the petite man on his back, "There." He nodded his head in the direction where a stream of light could be seen above a ledge.

Yugi's jaw dropped, /Oh this is going to suck…./

Kieth gently placed Yugi down on the ground. He gave him another sip of water and took one for himself before he through the bags as hard as he could onto the ledge, "You ready."

"No," Yugi answered honestly, "but what choice have I? So how do you propose we do this?"

Kieth ran his fingers through his sweat dampened hair, "I was thinking I could hoist you as high as I could. If you can reach the ledge, you can try to pull yourself up or swing your good leg up and then pull yourself up that way. I can climb the rocks up to it afterwards." Yugi nodded as he tried to visualize the plan.

"I'm not sure if it will work but we can try."

"Okay, I'm going to pick you up and put you onto my shoulders. Ready?"

Yugi nodded solemnly. He felt Kieth's strong grip around his hips as he lifted Yugi like he weighed nothing and put him into a sitting position on his shoulders. Kieth held onto Yugi's waist until he was certain he wouldn't fall.

"Try to stand."

Yugi gulped as he shifted on Kieth's shoulders. Forgetting about his leg, he went to move it in an attempt to stand and was rewarded with blinding pain.

"Don't worry about using that leg to stand. Put your weight on my hand until you can stand with your good leg."

Yugi repositioned himself and grabbed Kieth's hands. With much effort, pain, and struggling, Yugi was able to get his good leg onto Keith's shoulder and stand putting the weight that would have gone on his other leg on Keith's hand.

"You okay?" Yugi asked concerned for the man taking all of his weight on him.

"Yea I'm fine. Just keep going. Try to get your good foot up on my hand." Keith moved his hand that was holding on to Yugi's next to the good leg while maintaining to support Yugi's weight on the other hand. The violet eyed man put more of his weight onto Kieth's hand as he tried to do a little hop with his good leg. Kieth moved his hand slightly for Yugi's foot to land on top of it. He grimaced a little before straightening his arm and raising Yugi higher.

"Can you stand up fully?" the blonde asked grunting.

"I don't know." Yugi whispered as he forced his defiant body to move. Keith felt Yugi's petite from shake violently in his hands as he tried to stand on the good leg all the while maintaining his balance. Yugi stood to his full height, all of his weight on his good leg being supported by Keith.

"Can you get me closer to the ledge?" Yugi asked. Keith moved forward towards the cave wall. Tears streamed down Yugi's face as he bit his lip and reached for the ledge. He felt his ribs shift as he stretched. /Oh shit..some ribs are broken..this might not work./ Yugi bit even harder onto his abused lip as he grabbed onto the ledge.

"Can you reach it?" Keith asked.

"Yes. I got the ledge. Going to try and pull myself up." Yugi's muscles tightened as he pulled on the ledge lifting himself slowly off of Keith's hands. The pain from his broken ribs made him lightheaded. Darkness began surrounding his vision as his grip began to fail. "I can't hold on."

Keith realized Yugi couldn't pull himself up onto the ledge. His injuries were too great. He watched in horror as Yugi hung there unable to do anything. Yugi's head fell forward onto his chest; his body went limp. Kieth ran forward breaking his fall; the petite form landing on him knocked the wind out of him.

"Yugi! Are you okay?" He shifted to look at Yugi's face. He was out cold. Keith sighed going back to square one. He knew they had to get up to that ledge. The million dollar question being: How?

\/\/\/

"Oh fuck…." Yugi swore as he began to wake up, "What happened."

"You fell. Don't worry, I caught you. You didn't even touch the ground." Keith answered from somewhere off to the side, "And did you just drop the F-bomb? I never figured to do that.

"I usually don't. I feel like I've been thoroughly tortured." He groaned.

"I'm sorry, Yugi. I shouldn't have had you try that. You're injuries are too bad."

"Don't be sorry," Yugi shook his head, "It was worth a try."

"I do have another plan that may be a bit easier." Kieth said.

"What's that?"

"If you can hold onto my shoulders, I'll climb the rocks up to the ledge. You will need to hold on tight though." Keith responded.

Yugi nodded, "Okay. I would rather try something than lay here and do nothing."

Keith nodded before positing himself in front of Yugi again, "Escape: Take Two…Action" Keith joked.

The violet eyed man smirked as he wrapped his arms around Keith's shoulders again. The tall man stood hoisting Yugi's slim form onto his back. Yugi wrapped his good leg around Keith's waist and tried to wrap his broken leg around as well. The leg fell limply below him. Yugi let out a frustrated growl before tightening his arms around Keith's shoulders.

"Ready?"

"Yea. Let's get out of here."

The blonde moved over to the cave wall. He took a few deep breaths while gripping the rocks jutting out of the cave wall. "Hang on tight." He instructed as he began ascending the steep rocky wall. Yugi kept up a violent onslaught of his lower lip biting down as pain coursed through his entire body. It was proving much harder than he thought just to hold onto the man as he climbed.

"You doing okay back there, Yugi? You're so quite." Keith panted out.

"I'm fine," Yugi lied, "How are you doing?"

"I'm just dandy. You have no idea how glad I am you are so insanely petite and light."

Yugi chuckled. He looked up the side, they were about half way to the ledge. Yugi felt his grip begin to slip. /No! Hang on tight./ Yugi told himself gritting his teeth before trying to get a better grip on Keith. The blonde notice the shift and took a moment to grab Yugi's arms pinning them firmly to his chest.

"Don't let go now, Yug. We're not there yet. Hang on a little bit longer. I'll try to pick up the pace."

"O…ok…ay.." Yugi whimpered. The pain making him feel lightheaded again. He felt Keith adjust their pace and ascend at a much faster pace. They finally reached the ledge. Keith collapsed onto the safety of the cool rock surface panting.

"We made it," Keith smiled through his panting.

"You did it, Keith." Yugi whispered as he fought passing out.

"No. We did. That couldn't have been easy to hang on while I climbed with how badly you are injured."

"Thank…." Yugi's head fell to the side as exhaustion and pain pushed him over the edge into unconsciousness.

"You're welcome." Keith smiled at his petite friend who was out cold again. "We just need to get through that hole and we will be home free." Keith smiled up at the opening not being able to remain conscious either.