SS-anotha ch! hey, im gettin good at puttin up new ones!
Tym-it amazes me too. how didya manage to finish the rest of ur presentations in one day?
SS-.......i got skills. 8-)
Tym-sure....
SS-anyway...on with the next chapter! o wait...i think i 4got the disclaimer for the last ch. *looks at tym*
Tym- =*....fine. DISCLAIMER-SS don't own YGO! ONLY THE STORY.
kk, im done. =)
SS-u didn't hafta shout it Tym. but tkx. kk, let's get on w/it.
Last Time
~Yugi met Alan (His new roommate.) and was teaching him how to play Duel Monsters. Meanwhile, Yami continued his search for his Yugi, and after many tries, finally found him.
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Angels Watching Over Me
Chapter 5
***In Yugi/Alan's room 'round 1:45am***
Yami couldn't take his gaze off of him, partially because he looked so adorable, and partially for fear of him disappearing once he took his eyes off him (A/N: It could happen.). He slowly walked over to his bedside, having become real again, he pulled up a chair and sat down. He gently brushed away one of Yugi's golden bangs, then he began to look him over, his eyes landing on the cast on Yugi's right leg. Yami got up, and put his hands over it, suddenly, a bright glow emanated from his hands. 'If I can heal his injury, then I'll have completed my assignment, and I can go home. Although, after spending ALL that time locating the boy, I'd like to get to know him a lil before leaving. Maybe I can stay.....no. I can't get attached to my charges.' It was almost as if Yugi heard Yami's thoughts because at that moment, he began to stir. Yami panicked.....he quickly waved his hand and thought he was transparent....he thought.
"Hm....huh? Whose there?" Yugi blinked a couple times before the dark, blurry image came into focus. "Who are you?"
"Huh!?!? You can see me?"
"Well, sorta, it's hard to see someone in the dark." Yugi sat up to try and get a better look at the person. "So, who are you? One of the volunteers?" Yami looked at himself, he had waved his hand the opposite way (A/N: One way=transparent, other way=disguise). He was now in blue jeans and wore an oversized white T-shirt with the words "Ocean Pacific Hospital Volunteer" (A/N: That's a real hospital in SF) written on the bottom.
"Um....ya. I am." 'I guess i hafta play along....can't let him know who i really am.'
"I didn't know that you guys worked this late."
"......Some of us do. I-I couldn't come in the afternoon."
"Makes sense, that's probably why I didn't see you 'round here. Oh, didu lose your name tag?"
"Ya......my name's..." He hesitated, Yami wasn't sure if he was allowed to tell Yugi his real name. He took his chances. "Yami, my name's Yami, Yugi." Yugi stared at him for a minute before replying.
"How didu know my name?"
'Great job Yami.....' He mentally kicked himself. 'anotha mistake like that an you'll be in deep trouble.' "Um, it...it was on your jacket." He pointed to the blue jacket hanging on the coat rack by the door.
"Oh, I see."
"Well, I better-
"Do you hafta go Yami?"
"Uh...." Yami looked at Yugi, he wasn't sad, or scared, he jus had a pleading look in his eyes. "Uh....why?"
"I was jus wondering cuz, I can't sleep, and.........maybe we could talk or something." Yami argued with himself.
'This is what I wanted, now I can get to know him.' 'But you might accidentally tell him something that he shouldn't know, like who you REALLY are. Besides, you can come back later to heal him.' 'But he WANTS to talk to me.' 'Just say no, he'll fall asleep in time.' 'I want to talk to him too, 4get the rules today, what harm can it do?'
"So, can we talk? Or do you hafta go?"
"No, I can stay here with you. After all, I am supposed to make sure all the kids are sleeping, and you can't get to sleep unless I stay here to talk."
"Great!" The smile on Yugi's face was so sweet, Yami didn't care if he WAS breaking any rules. He sat down again and Yugi ajusted his leg.
"So Yugi, how didu break your leg?"
"Uh....." Yugi remembered what happened when he told Alan how he broke his leg. Even though Yami looked to be a lil more sophisticated than Alan, he didn't want to risk anotha laugh fest. Yami musta sensed his discomfort, because he quickly changed the subject.
"Is that your deck?" Yami pointed to the duel monsters deck sitting on top of the nightstand.
"Ya. I play in my spare time. Do you know how to play?" The look of uneasiness in Yugi's eyes immediatly changed to wonder as he awaited Yami's answer.
"Yes, I do."
"Really?! Cool! Maybe we could play sometime." Now that they found some common ground, Yugi and Yami continued talking for an hour or so. Each taking turns telling the other 'bout some of their strategeies, their fav. card (A/N: Dark Magician of course.), and some of their most exciting duels (A/N: That was mostly Yugi, Yami knew how to play, but not many angels dueled in their free time.) They probably would have gone on longer, if Yami hadn't noticed Yugi try to stifle a yawn. Then he checked the clock, 2:50 am.
"It's really late, *Got out of his chair* I better go."
"You sure?"
"Ya, I'm pretty sure, Yanazi will have my head if he knew I was depriving you of your rest."
"Whose Yanazi?" Yami felt his stomach turn.
"Uh.....that's, the uh, he's....um.....Yanazi's the director of the volunteers." Yami put on a smile.
"Oh, okey." Yugi didn't really believe Yami. Tea told him the director was a woman, one of her friends, but he didn't want to question Yami after he had spent all that time keeping him company. 'He probably jus made a mistake, it is pretty late.' Yugi slipped back under the covers while Yami fixed them and adjusted the pillow supporting his leg. "We can talk later, *yawn* right?" Yami smiled, he really did look like a lil angel.
"Right, but you hafta get some sleep. *yawn* So do I." Yugi giggled.
"Sorry if I was keeping you up."
"No, you weren't." Yami procceded to the door. "G'nite Yugi."
*Yawn* "Good night Yami." He turned to his side, and fell asleep in seconds.
"Sweet dreams." (Assit./N: tym-these are my notes, and doesn't SS say Sweet Dreams? A/N-no, I say Sweet DWeams. AND GET OUT OF THE NOTES!) He closed the door, became transparent, and searched for the room he slept in before. It was jus a few doors down from Yugi's. When he got in, he locked the door, and collasped onto the bed, exhausted, but glad to have gotten to know Yugi a lil. 'I'll talk to him later.' He was sleeping seconds after he had closed his eyes, after all, it HAD been a rough day.
***In Yugi/Alan's room 'round 9:21am***
"Yugi? YUGI!!! WAKE UP!!!"
"Huh? Wha? Alan? What are you doin?" Alan was jumping on the end of Yugi's bed, being careful not to hit his cast. There was a plate with some pancakes and fruit on his nightstand, along with a glass of milk. But that's not what Yugi looked at, he was glancing at the clock. "Alan, tkx for the breakfast an all, but it's 9:22am. *Pulled covers over head* Give me a couple more hours."
"A couple more hours? Yugi, we didn't go to sleep THAT late. You got more than enough rest."
'If only he knew, last I remember, it was about 2:50am or so when I fell asleep. Was I really talking to that volunteer all night? What was his name.....Yami? Or was it all a dream? He did seem to nice to be true.' "Um, I couldn't get to sleep last night, so I ended up staying awake for awhile."
"Oh, well, Tea came in earlier and brought you the breakfast, not me *Points to the plate of food* and told me to call her when you woke. *Jumps off of Yugi's bed* You rest a lil more if you're still tired, I'll go get Tea." With that, Alan left while Yugi pulled up the covers.
'He said that we would talk again, but, I wonder if I jus dreamt the entire thing....'
"Yugi?"
"Hi Tea, you wanted to talk to me? Wait...where's Alan?"
"He went to the recreation room. So, how are you feeling? Does your leg still hurt?"
"Actually, it feels better than it did yesterday (A/N: That's because Yami did heal some of it, but not all of it.)."
"Really? But you jus got your cast a couple days ago."
"Hm, fast healer?" He picked up his breakfast and began cutting the pancakes to pieces.
"Ok, well you should get up soon, after you finish eating."
"Is there something I need to do?" He stuffed a few more pieces into his mouth.
"No, but if you sit here and eat all day you'll turn into a big couch potato!" She adjusted her nametag, then put her hands on her hips.
"Oh, that reminds me, do you know if there's a volunteer named Yami here?"
"Yami? I don't think so. Why?"
"Because, I think he stopped by my room last night."
"Someone named Yami came here last night? Hm, I don't remember seeing his name on the registration list. I'll go check now, ok?"
"Ok, tkx Tea." With that, Tea left, and Yugi finished his breakfast.
***Rm 414 (The room Yami slept in)***
*CLICK CLICK TINK, BANG BANG* "Uh....mmm....huh?" Yami opened his eyes and saw that he was still on the bed, and that there was someone outside, trying to get in.
"I don't understand why this door is locked. I coulda sworn it was open yesterday." A nurse was standing outside, trying to unlock the door with a ring of keys. "Nope, not that one."
"Oh great, *Yawn* so much for my 'nap'." Yami got up, still transparent, and headed for the door. He quickly unlocked it and phased through the wall. 'I betta check to see how Yugi's doing, though, he's probably still sleeping. I know I would be if that nurse hadn't disrupted me.'
***Rm 404***
"Guess I should walk around a bit, don't wanna be a potato this Christmas." He got out of bed, found his crutches, and began walking to the elevator. A couple seconds after he had left, Yami had arrived.
"Hm, he's gone, and he's eaten some breakfast too." Yami decided to look for him later, and headed outside. 'I need some fresh air, o'course, no air's fresher than the kind up there. All the more reason to finish my assingment and get home.' He phased through the wall and floated down to the garden below him. It was in back of the hospital, a place filled with beautiful flowers, and their sweet aroma. Patients came here to relax and exercise when they didn't feel like being cooped up in the big white building.
'Hm, I guess this will hafta do until I can get back up there.' Yami became visible again, and began strolling down one of the garden's many pathways.
"Ah, this is jus what I need right now." Meanwhile, Yugi had also made his way to the garden, he began walking around, admiring all the blossoms and enjoying the gently breeze. That is, until he came to a small fork in the road (A/N: Ya, it's a BIG garden =D). He couldn't decide which way to go, both ways were welcoming with even more buds and shrubs, but he made up his mind when he saw a bit of black escape the corner of his eye.
"Yami?" He quickly made his way down the path, although his crutches only allowed him to go so fast. He tried to go faster, but it jus hurt him more. 'I wish I had brought my wheelchair.' When he finally turned the corner, there wasn't a sign of anyone anywhere. With a sad sigh, Yugi slowly made his way to the stone bench near him, put his crutches down beside him, placed his elbows on his knees, and his head in his hands. *sigh* "It was probably jus a bee or something, it couldn't have been him."
"Couldn't have been who?" Yugi snapped his head up, standing infront of him in the same blue jeans and white t-shirt, was Yami.
"Yami!" Yugi jumped up and hugged the slightly confused Yami. He wasn't really sure why the youth was so happy to see him, but he returned the hug all the same. A smile came to Yami's lips when he saw how ecstatic Yugi was to see him. He gently stroked the boy's hair and slowly lowered them both to the bench, still in the embrace. It was as if Yugi didn't want to let go, for fear of losing Yami. "I DID see you last night! I wasn't sure if it was jus a dream or if you were real, but you are! I thought I saw the black of your hair among all the green in the garden, so I came down this path, but when I didn't see you at first, I-I-"
"Hold on Yugi, calm down." Yami finally broke the tight grip and ran a hand through his hair. "I'm not going anywhere, don't worry."
"I know, but, it was really late last night, I wasn't sure if you did come by to talk to me or not."
"Well I did, and I told you that we would talk again. O'course I was thinking of coming by at night, before you went to sleep." Yami didn't realize how much it musta meant to Yugi to have him keep him company last night. 'Maybe he had a bad dream, but, usually kids that have nightmares don't smile in their sleep. Must be something else, hm, I'll find out later.' The two continued from where they had left off last night, more strategies and combinations to strengthen their monsters, when suddenly a voice broke the conversation.
"YUGI! WHERE ARE YOU?!"
"Tea?" Yugi got his crutches and turned the corner to see where his friend was. "TEA?!"
"YUGI? WHERE ARE YOU?"
"DOWN THE PATH!"
"YUGI THIS GARDEN IS HUMONGUS! WHICH PATH?" Yugi looked for something special about the road he had taken, then replied.
"THE ONE WITH THE YELLOW ROSES!" After a min. or so, he saw his brown-haired friend run towards him.
"Yugi.....there...you..are." She was breathing heavily, with a small scrap of paper in her right hand. "He-here.....it's a list of...of all the volunteers.....name an everything." Yugi looked at the paper, on it were 15 names and 15 phone numbers written in Tea's neat handwriting. Finally catching her breath, Tea continued with her sentence. "There's no one named Yami on it Yugi. Whoever came by your room last night wasn't a volunteer here." Yugi scanned the list, none of the names even had a 'Y' in 'em. He stared at it in disbelief.
"Are you sure this is right Tea?"
"Yeah, I asked one of the secretaries to pull up the list for me, she even did a search on the nurses (A/N: Yup, there are some male nurses out there.), no matches Yugi." Yugi couldn't believe it. 'Hm, maybe he used a fake name, it's possible, may be he really values his privacy.'
"Maybe he told me his nickname or something, cuz I know he's real, it WASN'T a dream."
"I'm not saying it was Yugi, but
"Sure. But you can meet Yami in person now, hey Yami!" Yugi turned the corner to ask Yami to come and meet Tea, only to find an empty bench. "What!?!?!?!" Yugi couldn't believe he left. He looked down the other paths, not even a footprint, course, this was a cobble stone road.
"What's wrong Yugi?" Tea also looked down the path, trying to find what Yugi was looking for, but the only person she saw was a lil girl in her wheelchair, sniffing the pink Chrysanthemums. "Who are you looking for?" Yugi didn't reply, he was trying to think of why Yami had left.
'I know I saw him....he IS real. Maybe he thought I had left, so he did the same, but he coulda told me.Or maybe he forgot about something he had to do, I mean, I'm not the only patient he has to watch after.' (Tym-if he only knew =D) Yugi glanced down the paths one more time. 'Well, he said that he woulda come to talk to me at night if I hadn't found him in the garden, so maybe, jus maybe, I'll see him tonight.' Slowly, Yugi and Tea walked back to the hospital, both heading to the office to solve this mystery once an for all.
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SS-k, were finally getting somewhere on this mystery. o'course you guys already know who Yami ReAlLy is.
Tym-duh. they DID read the prologue.
SS-ya i kno, i kno, but if you readers think it'll end with Yugi an Tea finding out who Yami really is.....you might be right.
Tym-WHAT!?!?! what about the part where Yugi's injury gets serious!?!?! What about his mom!?!?!
SS-hm, so you ARE interested in this.
Tym-well, humph.=( wait, so your NOT gonna keep goin?
SS-well, it's up to the readers. tell me what to do cuz this writing stuff takes up more time than i thought, but if I do keep goin (after they try and find out who he REALLY is) the ch.s might not come out as quickly as they usually do. So, here's your choices:
1-Yugi and Tea try to find out who Yami is and after that end it. (may be, 1-2 more ch.) OR
2-Yugi and Tea try to find out who Yami is and then we move on to Christmas, the serious part of the story, and more on Yugi's mom (yes she plays some sort of roll here.). that's....uh...iono how many more ch.s, but more ch.s
SS-k, so take your pick. an i'll also ask some of my friends what they think, if they tell me to keep goin, I will (After all, they are the ones who wanted me to write this in the 1st place.).
Tym-Do I get a say in this????
SS-not really, but go ahead if you want.
Tym-FINE I WILL! kk readers....iono 'bout you, but i'm gonna annoy SS by voting! cya at the elections!
SS-it isn't that kind of...o n/m. jus R/R plz. i'll tell ya what happens next time! Sweet Dweams! (It really is late....1151 pm)
Tym-get to sleep! or else ur gonna wake up late! Ashes ta Ashes Digidudes!
SS-*whispers* you DO know that these are YGO fans, not Digi fanatics.
Tym-I'M A DIGIMON! I GOT MY PRIDE!
SS-w/e cya later dudes an dudettes.