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Yugi limped back into his dorm room and closed the door and leaned on it to keep himself from collapsing. He sighed and slid down it. His father beat the hell out of him. He'd be limping for days. And the worst part of it? He was still expected to do track.
He felt eyes on him and looked up to find Atem sitting at his desk looking at him. Looking away he used the handle to pull himself up. Avoiding Atem's eyes he limped to his bed, all the while feeling Atem staring at him.
"Are you undressing me with your eyes or something?" Yugi growled.
"He did that to you." Atem said bluntly.
"Your point is?" Yugi looked at him with cold eyes.
"Why are you letting him do it?" Atem asked.
"In case you haven't noticed I'm a shrimp and my father is huge. I don't get much of a choice." Yugi said.
"You willingly went to him!" Atem said.
"Yes well if I didn't he would have come here for me and it would have been twice as bad. He doesn't like having to come after me." Yugi said.
"I would have defended you." Atem said.
"I don't need your damn help. Piss off." Yugi growled.
"Yugi this is ridiculous! You are letting yourself get beaten." Atem said standing. He walked over to Yugi. "What did he do to your leg?"
"Back off." Yugi became defensive.
"No. What did he do to your leg?" Atem demanded. "Don't make me pin you down and look myself."
Yugi glared at him. "I said back off!"
"Fine pinning it is then." Atem pinned him down on the bed and held him there. He was thankful Yugi didn't have the energy to fight him. He lifted Yugi's pant leg up to his knee. He gasped at the color. His entire ankle was nearly black and twice the size it should be. "Yugi!"
"It's fine." Yugi said.
"Fine? Fine!? That is not fine!" Atem yelled.
Yugi tried to push him off. "I'm used to it alright. Just get off of me!" Yugi yelled.
"You're going to the clinic." Atem said.
"No. Now get off!" Yugi screamed.
Atem sighed and got off.
"Thank-" Yugi started before Atem picked him up. "Hey what are you doing!? Put me down!" Yugi struggled.
"No. I'm done playing around. You're going to the clinic and you're getting your ankle looked at." Atem started walking. He slid on his shoes and walked out of the dorm after grabbing his keys and phone. "How the hell are you this light?"
"It...doesn't matter." Yugi looked away.
"When was the last time you had full meal. Other than here." Atem asked.
"It doesn't matter." Yugi said.
"Yes it does. When?" Atem demanded.
"Why do you care so much huh? You don't know me." Yugi said.
"Its not a matter of knowing you. Yugi no one should be going throug this kind of thing. Least of all someone like you." Atem said.
"Someone like me? What's that supposed to mean?" Yugi glared
"Well you know." Atem said feeling awkward.
"No I don't. So enlighten me." Yugi growled.
"Well small and um.." Atem trailed off
"Helpless?" Yugi growled.
"No! No um not very uh strong?" Atem asked.
"Fuck you." Yugi glared.
"Yugi I didn't mean to offend you." Atem said as he got to his car.
"Bullshit!" Yugi said
Atem sighed and opened the passenger door to his car. He put Yugi in and buckled him in before closing the door. Just as Yugi was about to get out Atem got in the driver's side and drove. Yugi growled.
"I don't need to go to the damn clinic! I can just go see Seto!" He yelled. "Stop this car!"
"No. Shut up and get over it already." Atem said. "Seto can't help with your ankle."
Yugi glared. "I hate you."
"Oh well." Atem said.
They sat silently for the rest of the ride. Yugi stared out the window. His entire body throbbed. It wasn't like he denied that he needed to be looked at, but if he went to the clinic they'd start asking questions of how he got all the bruises and what happened to his ankle. He couldn't tell them. His entire world would crash down.
After what felt like forever he decided that the instant the car stopped and the doors were unlocked he book it as best he could. His ankle may be in bad condition but it wasn't the first time he'd run on a hurt ankle. He could make it if he just pushed himself enough.
Atem stopped the car in the parking lot and got out. Yugi took his chance and ran out. He got maybe five steps before collapsing. He winced and pulled his leg close.
"Damn it!" Yugi yelled out.
Atem sighed. "You're such high maintenance. If you just stop-"
"Never!" Yugi growled.
Atem rolled his eyes and went to him. He picked him up. "Honestly, you can't possibly want to stay in this amount of pain."
"Let go of me!" Yugi struggled but Atem's grip was as strong os iron.
"No. Now stop acting like a child." Atem said started walking to the clinic.
"I said put me down!" Yugi yelled as they walked in. Everyone turned to look at them.
"Now see what you're doing? You're causing a scene." Atem said walking to the desk. YUgi glared up at him.
"Yes?" the nurse asked looking at them as if they each had two heads.
"He needs to see someone for his injuries." Atem said.
"Name?" she asked.
"Yugi Moto. I'll be paying for it. I'm Atem Kodai." Atem said.
Yugi's eyes widened. "You'll what?"
"Hush you. This is what happens when you fall down three flites of stairs when I told you not to dance around near them." Atem said.
Yugi went completely silent. Atem wasn't going to tell them what really happened?
"Alright and the injuries?" she asked.
"I don't know exactly. I assume bruises around his body but the worst part is his ankle. I think it could be badly twisted or sprained or something." Atem said.
"Alright please sit and wait." she said.
Atem nodded and sat down still holding onto Yugi.
"You can put me down now." Yugi grumbled as he crossed his arms.
"And chance you running off? No." Atem said.
"I'm not gonna run off." Yugi said rolling his eyes. "You saw outside I clearly can't. We're getting weird looks now put me down."
Atem put him on the seat. "Don't move."
"You're annoying." Yugi said bluntly
"So are you." Atem said pulling out his phone and looking at it. He'd gotten three texts from Anzu.
Yugi glanced at his phone. "What's wrong? Missed some texts from your girlfriend?"
Atem glared at him. "Shut up. Anzu sure as hell is not my girlfriend. She's just some annoying bitch."
"Sure." Yugi said sarcastically clearly not believing Atem.
"You seem to want her to be more than that to me." Atem smirked at him.
"Tch. No." Yugi snorted. "I don't care either way." he crossed his arms.
"Oh no?" Atem raised an eyebrow at him.
"No." Yugi glared.
"Sure." Atem mimmicked the way Yugi said it earlier.
"Piss off." Yugi said looking to the side.
Atem chuckled to himself as he started a game on his phone.
Yugi stared away. Why would he care if Atem was with some chick? Its not like he liked him or anything. Atem was annoying and didn't know how to mind his own business.
"Do you ever smile?" Atem asked as he played his game.
"What?" Yugi looked at him.
"You know smile. Its something you do when you're happy." Atem said.
"Oh yes I'm just a big ball of sunshine." Yugi said sarcastically. "What reason do I have to be happy for?"
"Maybe if you stop letting him do this then you could be happy." Atem said
"You don't know him alright. You don't know anything so keep yourself out of my business." Yugi glared.
"You come back to the dorm miserable and in pain. You ankle and probably sprained or at least the bone is badly bruised. Let me guess he still expects you to run in track." Atem said.
"I can and I will." Yugi said.
"You can't. As you said it showed outside that you can't. You're just going to make your ankle worse." Atem said. He still played his game which was starting to get on Yugi's nerves.
"Not running would make my LIFE worse." Yugi said.
Atem paused his game and looked at him. "Yugi I want an honest answer. Why do you let him do this to you?"
Yugi looked away. "I don't get a choice."
"Yes you do." Atem said.
"No I don't. I have no where else to go. If it gets out that he does this I'll go into the system. I'm not 18 yet." Yugi said.
"Sorry." Atem said.
"Its fine. Point is I don't get to just walk away from this." Yugi said.
Atem was silent for a while. "What if you get fostered?"
"What?" Yugi looked at him.
"Well like by a friend's parent. Someone who goes to the same school." Atem said.
"I don't have any friends." Yugi said.
"Ouch we're not friends?" Atem teased.
"What part of any of this made you think we're friends?" Yugi asked.
"Look point is what if there's someone who can foster you?" Atem asked rolling his eyes.
"There is no one." Yugi said.
"Well I can ask my parents." Atem said.
Yugi looked at him and narrowed his eyes. "What's your angle?"
"I don't have one." Atem said.
"Bullshit." Yugi said.
Atem sighed. "Can't you just trust me?"
"No." Yugi said bluntly.
"When have I ever given you a reason not to?" Atem asked.
"When you kidnapped me and forced me here." Yugi said.
"Kidnapped you? Is that what you think I did?" Atem asked
"Yes." Yugi nodded
"Do you know what kidnapping means?"
"Taking someone somewhere against their will." Yugi said.
"Oh ra forbid I help you." Atem rolled his eyes. Ra this kid was annoying. "Look whether you like it or not I'm talking to my parents. You're getting away from your father." Atem said dialing on his phone.
"Atem don't you dare." Yugi growled. He tried to pull the phone from him.
Atem stood and moved out of his reach. Yugi growled.
"Hey mom." Atem walked away.
Yugi gulped. He was dead. His father was going to kill him. There's no way they'd get him away from him. His father controlled too many people. How did you think his father got away with what he was doing for so long?
He sat there tense for what felt like forever before Atem came back.
"After this we're going to see my parents." Atem said.
"This is never going to work. My father has too many people wrapped around his finger." Yugi said staring down.
"We have to try." Atem said.
"And when it fails I'm fucked. Thanks." Yugi growled just before his name was called.
Atem picked him up and took him.
Turned out Yugi's ankle was sprained pretty badly. And him walking on it didn't help either. The doctor braced it and gave him a prescription for pain killers and an excuse from any activities that required him to walk on it. After that he gave him crutches.
After Atem paid for everything he put Yugi back into his car. He loaded his crutches before getting in and driving off. They sat in silence as Atem drove. Neither of them had anything to say. They both knew the next few hours were going to be tense enough without them adding anything onto it. Yugi sighed. Damn he needed a smoke.
Soon Atem pulled up to a large house and parked the car. They sat there in silence a good 5 minutes before Atem spoke.
"I know you don't want this. I get it but it's for the best." Atem said.
Yugi just stared out the window as he responded. "Whatever. Don't expect much."
"I know." Atem sighed and got out. He helped Yugi out and gave him his crutches. He lead him to the door before going in and holding it open so Yugi could come in. "Now about my parents. My father can be um tough. Kind but sort of in a stern way. My mother is a bit over bearing. She'll want to hug you...a lot."
"Gee great." Yugi muttered as he crutched in.
Atem closed the door behind him. "Mom! Dad!" he called out.
Yugi stood looking around. It was a nice craftsman style house with what Yugi assumed was a homey feel. He'd never really experienced that. His father was all into the cold, distant feel in a home.
"Oh sweet heart!" a women came out. She had a soft kind face and black hair. She hugged Atem and kissed his cheek. Atem hugged back. "How are you adjusting to dorm life?"
"Its good mom." Atem said.
"Are you eating? Getting enough sleep?" she asked concerned about his health.
Atem chuckled. "It's only been two days mom."
"Leave him be dear. Atem is smart. He know's how to take care of himself." a man came up. Yugi looked at him. He was tall and clearly strong but something about him told Yugi he wouldn't actually hurt Atem.
"I worry. He is my baby." she said.
Atem smiled. "I'm ok mom. Really."
"Now is this the boy you told us about?" she asked.
"Yes. Mom, Dad, this is Yugi. Yugi these are my parents. Judge Aknamkanon Kodai, and Dr. Asi Kodai."
"It's very nice to meet you Yugi. We are so sorry for what's been happening to you." Asi said softly to him.
Yugi just nodded.
"It's ok. You're safe here. Let's go talk ok." Asi said.
Yugi didn't say anything as Atem's parents lead him and Atem to the living room and sat down. Atem helped Yugi sit.
"Now we understand your father has been hurting you." Asi said.
Yugi stayed silent.
"Yugi you are safe here. You can talk to us." Asi said gently.
Yugi remained silent so Atem finally cut in.
"He was beaten by his father today. And yesterday he was whipped by his piano tutor." Atem said.
Asi gasped a bit. "Whipped? Oh dear."
Yugi felt the urge to roll his eyes but resisted it. This was pointless. He'd never escape his father and this was just going to make things worse.
"Yugi please talk." Asi said.
"Son we will help you." Aknomkanon said.
"I don't need help." Yugi muttered. "And don't call me son."
"That's what he does. He denies it all." Atem said glancing at Yugi.
"Tch. It's not denial. I'm not delusional. I know what my father does to me. I CHOOSE not to instigate which is what you keep doing. You're making things worse for me by doing this. You don't know what he's capable of." Yugi glared at Atem.
"Who is your father Yugi?" Aknomkanon asked.
"Hideki Moto." Yugi said.
They went silent and gaped at him.
"What?" both Yugi and Atem asked confused.
"You're the son of Hideki Moto?" Asi asked
"Yes." Yugi nodded. Now he expected them to either kick him out for being the heir to a despicable man or fathom over the fact that his father is so rich and amazing. They did neither.
"That man has been in and out of my court on charges of abuse of his ex wife so many times it's ridiculous. We could never catch him though." Aknomkanon said slightly angered.
Yugi tensed at the mention of his mother.
"That's it. Why don't you go live with your mother?" Asi asked.
Yugi snorted. "She abandoned me years ago."
"What? No. She isnt like that at all." Aknomkanon said. "I see her all the time. Wow. I can't believe it. Yugi she misses you so much."
"Yeah right." Yugi said.
"She does. She wants you back but well she doesn't have the sources to get you back and no matter how much I try she won't take my help." he said.
"If she really wanted me she would have tried harder to keep me in the first place and not leave me with my bastard of a father." Yugi said as Asi glanced behind him.
"I never wanted to leave you." a woman's voice came.
Yugi froze.
"I was kicked out by your father and with no money and nowhere to shelter you he automatically got custody of you."
Yugi didn't turn to look at her. "What about after that? What about visitation? What about even trying to know me?" he turned and looked at her with anger. "You just flat out abandoned me. Not a word before or after you did it."
"I'm sorry. I should have-"
"Well you didn't. You didn't do anything to help me." he grabbed his crutches and pulled himself up. "You have no idea what I've been through."
"I do. I went through it too." She said.
"And? Did he force you to breed me?" Yugi growled.
"What? No we were in love we-"
"Really? From the start I was told I was bred for success. And any little thing I did wrong would counter my breeding so guess what I was beaten. I was whipped. I had my hands slammed time and time again by the key cover on the pianos just for getting a note wrong. I've been electrocuted to be forced to run so I could be the best track runner! Nothing compares to that. And on top of all that my mother just left me to deal with it all! I had no one! Seto is the only one who's ever given a damn about me until for some unknown fucking reason Atem does. I've been alone for years now and you know what? It's gonna stay that way." he looked to Atem's parents. "Sorry for all this. Please do forgive me. I'll be going now." Yugi said politely as he was taught by his father and left them all sitting and standing there watching him leave.
Yugi managed to get the door open and leave. He'd get back to the dorms this way. He'd been through worse before.
"Yugi wait." Atem came out.
"Go away. None of this would have happened if you just minded your damn business!" Yugi yelled back at him.
"Yugi please. I didn't know she was your mother." Atem said.
"Sure you didn't." Yugi scoffed and started to crutch away.
Atem ran and stood in front of him. "She loves you Yugi."
"Piss off." Yugi glared.
"Please. Just sit and hear her out." Atem said. "She's your mother."
"No. She's not. Get out of my way."
Atem stood there. "You won't even listen?"
"No!" Yugi screamed. "Don't you get it!? Nothing can change anything! My life is a living hell!"
"We're trying to give you a way out!"
"There isn't one! He has too much power! You'll never win and I'll be beaten the worst I've ever been just for thinking about it! I can't get away from this!"
"You can if you just stop acting like a child!" Atem yelled.
"Fuck you Atem. I'll be requesting a dorm switch." Yugi said. "A private dorm. Not like I can't afford it." he went around Atem and left him standing there. He glanced back to see his mother standing on the porch. Turning away he crutched away from them and towards the campus. He could only imagine how long it was going to take him.
Yugi finally made it to his campus and to his dorm hall. He managed to unlock his dorm with out falling over and opened the door to find his father. Was there no end to this asshole being in his dorm?
"Father." he said softly.
"I got an interesting call and from the looks of you it was accurate. You went to the clinic." Hideki stood from sitting on Yugi's bed.
"I-I didn't tell them anything." Yugi said looking at him as he walked over.
Hideki moved past him and closed the dorm door before locking it. "What did you tell them?"
"Th-that I feel down the stairs." Yugi gulped and stayed perfectly still and he looked down.
Hideki grabbed his chin and forced him to look up at him. "You keep fucking up Yugi. Was it a mistake sending you here? Perhaps I'm giving you too much freedom and need to home school you again."
Yugi gulped. "N-no. I swear I'll straighten up. I'm switching to a private dorm. Its too distracting rooming with someone."
"Good. Now here's another problem I have. I got the call from the clinic over two hours ago and that was right after they discharged you. Even with the crutches you should have only taken an hour to get back. Know what I'm getting at here son?" Hideki asked.
Yugi felt his heart racing. "Y-you want to know w-where I've been."
"Ah there's those smarts I keep hearing about from all your tutors. So tell me, where have you been?" Hideki asked smirking.
"I-I was getting my pain medication. The clinic doctor g-gave me a prescription." Yugi said.
"Really? Because I called the pharmacy and they still have your meds." Hideki's hand moved to Yugi's throat. "You know I hate being lied to boy."
Yugi tensed. "F-father please I was just out."
"This is your last chance where were you?" Hideki growled.
"I...I.." Yugi couldn't tell him. It'd make everything worse.
"Fine you had your chance." Hideki was about to tighten his grip when they heard the door being unlocked. He growled and let go. Yugi stayed perfectly still as Atem walked in.
Atem froze when he saw Yugi's father.
"We'll talk about this later son. I need to get to a meeting." Hideki said.
"Yes father." Yugi looked down.
"Good. Behave." he said before leaving.
Yugi waited till the door closed before going to his bed and sitting. He took shaky deep breaths.
"What happened now?" Atem asked.
"Your dumb ass forgot to tell the clinic not to call my father." Yugi glared.
"Oh shit. Yugi I'm sorry. I forgot." Atem said.
"Yeah well thanks to you interfering I'm going to be beat later. Thanks." he growled before getting back up. He started to leave. "I'm going to switch rooms."
"Yugi please don't." Atem said.
"I have to. I already told father I was. I'm getting a private room." Yugi said.
"They won't allow it." Atem said
"They will. I'm not staying with you. If I don't switch rooms I have to go back to him." Yugi said before leaving.
He went to the office for dorm registration. "Hello. I want to switch to a private room."
"Name?" the woman asked.
"Yugi Moto." Yugi said.
She typed on her computer for a while. "It says here you're have a dorm room with Atem Kodai."
"Yes well I want out of it." Yugi said.
"I'm sorry but there are no more private rooms available. You'll have to stay in that room then switch next year." she said.
"No i need to get out." Yugi said.
"That's not possible I'm sorry." she said.
Yugi's reality hit him like a ton of bricks. He was fucked. He left and started back towards the dorm and he was pushed down. Looking up he saw Ushio.
"Hey shrimp." he smirked. "Let's have some fun."
There is it. hope you liked it. please review!
