Hidden Truths

Part Two

Secrets Revealed

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Actually, I don't really own much of anything, so please don't sue me!!!

Yami ran into the ER, blood staining his clothes, panting. Joey, Tristin, and Tea had all long since fallen behind as the Pharaoh had rushed to see his hikari, to see whether or not he was okay, alive.

"Please..... where is..... Yugi.... Motou.....?" Yami panted, his chest heaving as he approached the front desk. The nurses eyes widen for a second, but she said nothing about the blood. She had had enough relatives come in, covered in the blood of loved ones, to identify injury and stains.

"Are you a friend, or family of Miss Motou?" the nurse asked. Yami glared at her for a second.

"Yugi is my younger brother!" Yami snapped. The nurse glared at him.

"Maybe you and your.... brother should have a little talk, then." the nurse said, eyeing the tall duelist warily, looking through some charts. "Room 103. And do try to keep it under ten minutes, please. She needs a lot of rest."


Yami looked into the room. The steady, rhythmic beep of numerous machines filled the silence. The ever present drip of an IV filled the air. And there was Yugi, lying in the bed, paler than the sheets that surrounded him. Paler than the white washed walls.

Paler than life itself.

"Oh, Yugi...." Yami sobbed, approaching the tiny form softly, feeling as if his very presence in the room might cause his aibou to shatter into a thousand shards of glass, to dissolve before his very eyes.

Yugi moaned slightly, muttering something under his breath, his eyes fluttering open, watching Yami.

"I'm so sorry, Yugi! This is all my fault!! I should be here, not you! Not you!" Yami sobbed, holding his hikari's hand in his own, his grip soft, a gentleness that went in contrast with his sobbing, tear stained face.

Yugi smiled weakly, shaking his head painfully, trying to reassure his yami.

/It wasn't your fault, Yami. It was mine, I should've known better./ Yugi sighed mentally, Yami's turn to shake his head now.

"No, Yugi, I should have watched where I was going, I should have......" Yami trailed off mid sentence, looking down at Yugi's chest. It was still rising and falling gently, but there was something odd.... Yugi sobbed, turning away from Yami.

"You're mad, aren't you. I knew you would be!" Yugi hiccuped, tears streaming down her face as Yami looked on in horror.

The nurse had been right the entire time. Miss Motou, the words haunted Yami's mind. Here he was, staring at his precious aibou, who had been hiding an ultimate secret from him. His precious aibou, had been a girl, the entire time, and he had never noticed.

Yugi let out a yelp of pain as Yami, still lost in his thoughts, squeezed her hand, crushing the tiny fingers in his powerful grip. Yami looked down at the misshapen joints, and stood up, running from the room in horror, Yugi's sobbing following him long after he had left the hospital grounds......


~~~~~Two Weeks Later~~~~~


Yugi stared at her hands sullenly as Grandpa discussed her medications with the doctors. Yami had not come to see her the entire time she had been in the hospital. No one had. Yugi had requested that after Yami had gone running from the room. Yugi didn't want anyone to know, she didn't want to lose all her friends, because of what she was.

"Yugi?" Grandpa asked, resting his hand gently on her shoulder. Yugi almost smirked. Even Grandpa treated her differently now, as if, all of a sudden, she was as fragile as glass. It could have just been because of the car accident, but Yugi knew it wasn't.

"Yes, Grandpa?" Yugi asked politely, mustering up a grin. Her hand throbbed, where Yami had inadvertently broken it.

"It's time to go home now. Yami's waiting for us." Grandpa smiled, and Yugi nodded, settling down in the wheel chair. But she knew Yami wasn't waiting. Yami would never wait up for her again....


"Yami, we're home!" Grandpa shouted happily, helping Yugi to the sofa, treating her like a porcelain doll once more.

"Just a second!" Yami shouted from upstairs, and Yugi winced in pain. Her yami couldn't even be bothered to meet her anymore.

"Yugi, are you all right? Are you thirsty, or hungry? I could get you something..." Grandpa trailed off, fidgeting nervously. Yugi laughed, and shook her head.

"Grandpa, I'm fine, really. I'm just a little tired, that's all." Yugi smiled up at Grandpa, and Grandpa chuckled.

"Okay, then. You rest here. But you call if you need anything, all right?" Yugi nodded, and Grandpa left to take care of the shop, Yami coming down the stairs a few second later.

"Yami?" Yugi asked, stretching to look over at the Pharaoh, who had paused at the bottom step. Yami didn't answer, and a few tears slipped down her cheeks.

"Yugi...." Yami whispered, brushing the tears of his aibou's face gently.

"Yami, I'm sorry, I should have told you, I should never have kept secrets from you, I'm sorry!!!" Yugi sobbed, burying her face in Yami's chest, the cast on her hand painfully reminding Yami just what he had done to her.

"Shh, shh, it's all right, it's all right." Yami cooed, edging himself beneath her, rocking her gently.

//It's my fault more than anything. I shouldn't have deserted you, hikari.// Yami sobbed, tears streaming down his face.

"Yami, please, don't tell anyone else. I.... I don't want them to know." Yugi whispered, hiccuping. Yami smiled, and nodded, stroking the young girls hair as she drifted off to sleep.

"Yes, aibou, I promise, I promise......."


~TSUZUKU~


So, what did you think!?

Kinda cool, eh?

I know, I know, Yugi wouldn't have been able to keep a secret like that for so long, but I thought it would have been a cool little plot twist!

Explanations and such will follow in later, and most likely shorter, chapters!!!

R&R people!!!

Part Three