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Yugi woke up the next day to the sun on his face. It was just sun up and he was exhausted, but decided to get up anyways. He needed to keep moving if he was to stay away from the vampire who targeted him the day before. After he gathered all his stuff he started out towards the opposite direction of the organization.
It was half way through the day when Yugi decided to stop for food. He sat and pulled out some food. He wondered what Ryou and Malik were doing. "Ryou's probably studying or working as us and Malik is probably training."
Atem got up and dressed. The slayer's screaming had stopped in the middle of the night. He went down to the living room to find the boy unconscious still tied up. Bakura was nowhere to be seen. "Bakura!" The slayer jumped awake. He looked at Atem. Atem wasn't surprised to find the boy's face covered in cut and bruises.
"What?" Bakura growled walking in.
"What hell is he doing still alive?" Atem growled.
"Because i'm not done with him. Why don't you just go find that runt. I heard you let him get away yesterday." Bakura sneered.
Atem growled. "That won't happen again. I know exactly who he is."
"Oh yeah? Then who is he?" Bakura asked.
"His name's Muto." Atem said. He noticed Bakura's target flinch. He looked to him. "You know him don't you?"
"No." Ryou said looking away.
"Well that's a lie. So tell me.." Atem pulled out the tags. "What does this number mean?"
"Like i would tell you." Ryou growled.
Bakura went to him and grabbed his face. "Do you have a tag?"
"What do you care? You know who i am." Ryou spit in his face.
Bakura growled. He grabbed his hair and pulled his head back making his neck more accessible. Ryou yelled out in pain. "You know i've been wondering how your blood would taste. Shall i have a little taste?"
"No!" Ryou screamed in fear.
"Then tell us what the numbers mean." Bakura growled.
"Th-they're our records. The records of our time in the organization and past lives before it." Ryou said.
"Hm interesting. What's in these records?" Atem asked.
"Things like why we joined and such." Ryou said.
"Why did he join?" Atem asked.
"H-he lost his parents to a rogue vampire." Ryou said.
"So that's why he's on the hunt for them so badly." Atem said more to himself than Ryou or Bakura.
"Why did you join?" Bakura asked Ryou.
Ryou tried to look away but Bakura forced him to stay put. "I-I lost my sister and mother to vampires."
"Ah so basically you and Muto just want revenge." Atem said
"I-I guess you could say that." Ryou said softly. Bakura let go of his hair. Ryou immediately looked down.
"Well i'll be visiting Muto then." Atem said walking out.
He walked out of the house and went in the direction the slayer went. "This better not take me long." he said as he walked.
Yugi walked though his feet were killing him. He just wanted to get this over with so he could get back to the headquarters and get kicked out. It's not like he didn't know it was going to come to that. He had no clue why he did get kicked out already to be honest. His master had enough of him, that was clear.
"You know you look tired." Yugi turned to see the vampire from the day before.
"Are you really going to attempt this again? I really don't have time for this." Yugi groaned and turned away.
"Wow turning your back to a vampire. Brave aren't we?" Atem smirked
Yugi rolled his eyes. "Go away." he said just before the vampire suddenly appeared in front of him.
"Oh no. You'll be going with me." Atem smirked to him.
"Ha! Makes you think that?" Yugi asked
"Because we've got a friend of your's." Atem smirked as he moved closer to Yugi.
Yugi immediately glared. "Who?"
"Some white haired boy." Atem said waving it off.
"Ryou! You son of a bitch!" Yugi charged at him only to stumble when he suddenly disappeared. Atem appeared again behind him. Yugi turned and glared at him.
"I didn't take him. I wouldn't waste my time with someone like him. You though.." Atem smirked and appeared in front of Yugi again taking his chin in his hand. "I love to have my fun time with you. I bet all that training you go through at the headquarters makes you love very good without clothes."
Yugi pulled his chin free and had his daggers in his hand immediately. He took a swing at Atem who jumped back surprisingly gracefully. Yugi shook that from his head as he remembered what Atem was. He had to kill him. They had done nothing but destroy lives.
"Close." Atem smirked. "Not close enough i must say."
Yugi growled. "I gave you a chance to walk away. Just remember that."
"I'll be sure to." Atem smirked before their fight began. Yugi charged at Atem holding his daggers ready to strike at him. He had to take this bastard down and get Ryou back.
Atem laughed and disappeared again. "Child's play." his voice came.
Yugi looked around. "How are you doing this!? Only S class vampires can do this!"
"What did you think I was?" Atem suddenly showed behind him. He grabbed Yugi's neck from behind. "Now i suggest you drop the daggers unless you want your neck snapped."
Yugi growled. He couldn't die yet. He had too much to do. Instead of fighting he dropped his daggers.
"Smart choice." Atem smirked. He grabbed Yugi's bag and took it off of him. He tossed it aside. He then searched him for weapons. "Hmm I must say you're body is quite nice." he hummed as he rubbed his hand down Yugi's stomach.
Yugi growled. "Search for weapons but keep your hands to yourself."
"Now how can i do both?" Atem asked. "How about we find if there's a weapon down here." He put his hand down Yugi's pants.
Yugi struggled. "Stop it!"
Atem laughed and took his hand out of his pants. "Maybe later." he found all the weapons and throw them. Yugi gaped at how far. It'll take him weeks to find all of them!
"So Muto let's go talk about this number of yours." Atem smirked. He cursed himself for not bringing rope before he took off his belt and bound Yugi's arms with that. Yugi struggled at first but Atem just held him firmly. "Keep that up and I'll just kill you like i originally planned."
Yugi stopped. His anger rose. He didn't know who this vampire was but he was going to kill him. Even if it was the last thing he did.
Atem threw Yugi into the living room as he smirked. Yugi glared at him from the ground. Atem just smirked down at him as he shut and locked the door. In more than one way.
"Why don't you lay there for a little while and talk to your pal." Atem smirked as he walked over him.
"Yugi." Ryou said.
"Ryou?" Yugi looked to his left to find Ryou on his knees tied up.
"Well guess i'm screwed huh? If they caught you there's no doubt they'll catch Malik." Ryou said
"They're after Malik too?" Yugi asked. "Why do they want us?"
"I have no clue. They haven't told me a thing." Ryou said.
"Are you alright?" Yugi asked. "They didn't bite you did they?"
"No i wasn't bitten. Yet." Ryou said looking away.
"How did they get you?"
"We were out looking for you."
Yugi gulped. "So they caught you because you were out for me. I'm sorry."
"For what? Running off and scaring us to death or getting me caught?" Ryou asked coldly.
Yugi tensed. "Both."
Ryou sighed. "Why did you leave?"
"I can't sit around."
"So train. Work. Do something. Not leave."
"Ryou I have to find that killed my parents."
"We get that but just running off like that was the worst thing you could do."
"No sitting there and doing nothing is the worst thing i could do."
Ryou stayed silent for a while before he spoke. "Yugi i know how you feel."
Yugi looked down. He knew Ryou did. Both Ryou and Malik did. "I know."
"After finding my mother and sister I was the same way. Hell bent on finding that blood sucker who did it. But when I did find him. He was nothing but a monster."
Yugi listened.
"He was crazy. Class E. His mind was gone and he was feeding on an animal. I killed him. I lost it that day. Lost my mind on him. After his body was in front of me. I looked at my reflection in his blood. I looked no different than the monster that laid in front of me."
Yugi glanced to the side to see the vampires listening as well. Did Ryou know they were listening?
"In that moment I realized I didn't feel any better. It's not like killing him made my sister and mother come back. It didn't make the pain go away. I broke down right then and there. Malik had to drag me back to headquarters and knock me out to calm me down. Don't get me wrong I don't regret killing that bastard and him being gone from this world helps me a bit. I know he can't take anyone else's family members from them but it didn't make me feel better about their deaths." Ryou sighed. "I don't want to see you like that Yugi. I don't want you to see yourself as a monster."
It went dead silent for a good 10 minutes. Neither the hunters nor the vampires said anything. What could they say? Sorry for your loss? Sorry your mother and sister were killed by a blood crazed monster? They all knew that wouldn't help. Hell Yugi had heard it as much as Ryou had.
"Well that explains why you're a hunter." Bakura suddenly spoke.
Ryou didn't react. Not even a nod.
"But what I don't get is why you saw yourself as a monster after killing a lost cause yet can kill perfectly good vampires any other day." Atem said as he leaned on the wall.
"What are you talking about?" Ryou asked looking at him.
Atem pushed off the wall and walked over to them. "You sit here and saw you saw yourself as a monster. You killed a level E. He wasn't what you think. Level E's aren't vampires nor are they human. We don't accept level E's as our kind. Hell we kill them whenever we run into them."
Ryou looked away. "What does it matter?"
"Because you killed someone who was on death row anyways and felt bad but every other day you kill a citizen of our realm. Someone who can very well feed out of a bag instead of a human and feel nothing. What is the point of ridding the world of a monster if you kill the innocent every day?" Atem asked.
"You call your kind innocent yet you feed off the life of others." Ryou said.
"Like you humans are any better?" Bakura snorted.
"What?" Ryou asked.
"Hamburgers, pork chops, chicken, steaks. Should i continue? That's their lives you're taking aren't they? All for the sake of living. We can't eat meat but don't make us out to be the bad guys when humans aren't any better." Bakura said.
Ryou glared at him. "I'm a vegetarian."
"Good for you so is Atem." Bakura said
Yugi looked to Atem. "How are you a vegetarian?"
"I drink from donors. As in I drink from bags. Not a living source." Atem said. "Its how I was raised."
"So you don't drink from humans?" Yugi asked.
"No." Atem said.
"But that doesn't excuse the rest of your kind." Ryou said.
"We can say the same for humans. One of you being a vegetarian doesn't excuse the rest of your race." Bakura said. "Humankind is no better than Vampirekind."
Another dead silence. Yugi hated to admit it but Bakura's words made him think. Why did humans think they were better than vampires anyways. Yugi didn't hate vampires really. He hated the rogues. Level E's. If others got in his way then so be it.
"So shrimp. You got a rogue to go after?" Bakura asked.
Yugi looked away. "What's it to you?"
"You know anything about him?" Atem asked.
"No." Yugi muttered.
"Then you ran for nothing?" Ryou asked. "You don't know anything and yet you still ran off?"
Yugi shrugged. "I would have found something out somewhere."
"How long ago did this happen?" Atem asked.
"I was 5. So 14 years ago." Yugi said.
"He could very well be dead. Rogues don't last very long. Most are killed off within a year after they go rogue." Atem said.
"If that's the case then I'll search till I find out for sure if he is or not." Yugi said.
"Determined aren't you?" Atem asked a slight smirk coming to his face.
Yugi narrowed his eyes at him. "Your point is?"
"No point a statement." Atem shrugged. "Anyways we need to figure out what we're doing now."
"What you're not gonna kill us like you planned?" Yugi sneered.
"Hm." Bakura hummed. "Tempting. But no."
"Why not?" Ryou asked.
"Because you two aren't all that bad." Atem said.
"Well Ryou isn't." Bakura said
"Piss off." Yugi glared.
Bakura just laughed. "Well we can't let you two loose."
Yugi growled. "You can't keep us here. The hunters' HQ best masters will come find us."
"He's actually got a point Bakura. And we'll be killed for sure." Atem said.
"Then what do you suggest? They'll run if we let them free and you know that if they go back we'll be hunted for sure." Bakura glared at the other vampire.
"Move them." Atem said.
Yugi growled. "Touch me and I'll kill you."
"Shut up shrimp we're talking." Bakura waved him off absentmindedly. "Move them where?"
"Marik's tunnels?" Atem asked. "No one can find them down there except us."
"Makes sense. Yeah why not?" Bakura shrugged. "Let's get them there then tell him."
"Fine." Atem went to Yugi who scooted back.
"Touch me and I'll scream at the top of my lungs." Yugi threatened.
"Well then we'll just have to take care of that." Atem smirked. He grabbed Yugi's face and forced him to look into his eyes. Yugi felt himself grow tired before the world went black.
*POV Change*
Atem watched as Yugi's body collapsed to the ground.
"Harsh." Bakura said though he was clearly smirking.
"Whatever. Let's go." Atem said as he picked up Yugi and threw him over his shoulder.
Bakura looked to Ryou. "Do I need to do the same to you?"
Ryou with a look of a mixture of shock and fear on his face shook his head. "N-no."
"Smart one." Bakura smirked and picked him up. He threw Ryou over his shoulder as Ryou grunted.
Atem nodded before they left.
It took maybe an hour to get to the tunnels. Atem and Bakura were able to get into them without any problems. They took some twists and turns before coming to a room. Atem put Yugi on the ground as Bakura did the same.
"I don't suggest trying to escape. These tunnels are so confusing to those who don't know them you'd die before get close to the exit." Bakura told Ryou who just nodded.
Atem shrugged. "Might want to tell this one that when he wakes up. Though your door will be locked from the outside."
Ryou nodded.
"Hm you're a smart one." Atem said before they left. The locked the door.
Atem looked into the small window in the door and watched the boys for a minute. Ryou moved closer to Yugi almost like he was ready to defend him if anything happened. He snorted before walking away.
*Meanwhile*
"What do you mean they've been taken!?" Malik yelled at the council.
"Muto ran off and Ryou followed. We believe that they haven't returned because they were captured by some S class vampires." the first member said.
"We have to get them back!" Malik yelled.
"That won't be possible." another member said.
"What!?"
"These are class S vampires we are talking about. We can't just charge out there. The loss of your friends is quite sad but we do not have the necessity to go for them." a third member said.
"That's bullshit! They are part of your organization! How can you just turn your backs on them!?"
"I suggest you watch your tongue." the first gorwled.
"If you won't go for them I will." Malik threatened.
"Then you three will be thrown out." the fifth and oldest council member said.
"Good at least we won't turn our backs on each other. Go to hell." Malik growled before walking out.
He was determined to find them at all costs. He just didn't know how great that cost would be.
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