Yugi groaned and opened an eye lazily. He was somewhere very white...and very clean smelling. He groaned again closing the eye again. "Yugi..." Yami's voice sounded worried. "Hnn...c'mon...I'm tired Yami. We can talk later..." Yugi muttered yawning. Yugi was pretty sure he was on some form of sedative and most likely a pain killer too.

Yami made a face. "Yugi! You've been out for hours now!" He said lightly shaking his hikari. Yugi made a face and rolled over to look at his yami. "That's nice..." He said in a cheerful voice. "Gimme a few more and check back." He said yawning and curling up again. "Yugi...I'm worried are you ok?" Yugi opened an eye. "I cant feel any part of my body Yami...its niiiice..." He said closing the eye again.

Yami stared. "How can you say that?! You almost got killed by a horse and you're in the hospital!" Yugi made a soft snoring sound. Yami slumped. "He went to sleep..." He said flatly, sitting back down. Jono, Honda and Anzu burst into the room. "We heard Yugi was here...is he ok?!" They all said breathing hard. Yami nodded. "Rodeo accident." He mumbled looking at his hikari. "...What's a Rodeo?" Honda asked puzzled. "Aint it one of them crazy sports those weird Americans have?" Jono said scratching his head. Anzu nodded. "Its a sport where they ride wild animals to see who can stay on their back the longest."

Yami groaned. "Don't remind me...Yugi stayed on that thing for at LEAST three minutes!" He said running a hand through Yugi's hair. Anzu blinked. "Three minutes?! That's insane..." She mumbled looking at Yugi. Jono blinked. "You...mean they ride wild animals to get thrown off?! What kind of whacko sport is that?! Stupid Americans..." Honda nodded. "They are pretty dumb...that's really nutty...a sport where you are supposed to get hurt." He said agreeing with Jono.

Anzu shook her head. "Did he break anything?" She said frowning. A nurse came in and coughed. "Excuse me..." Everyone gave her their attention. "I take it you're his friends. Well Yugi here is pretty banged up. His left shoulder was dislocated, he sprained his wrist, tore a muscle in his right leg, and he suffered a few minor lacerations. Yami gawked at her. Anzu elbowed him. "Shh a laceration is a cut." She whispered knowing he'd never heard that term before.

"So...how long will he be in here?" Jono said shaking his head. "Poor guy." He mumbled. The nurse smiled. "He can leave tomorrow, but only after we fit him with a brace for his wrist. Don't let him do ANY lifting or put weight on his leg. He should be sore for a while...but other than that he'll be just fine. I'll have the doctor write him a prescription." Yami nodded. "Pain killers right?" The nurse nodded. "Yes, he'll be needing them." Yami sighed in relief. "Thank you." He said sitting back down and running a hand through his hair.

"Owww!! Yami! Stop walking so fast!" Yugi yelped as they walked to the drugstore. "Slow down!" Yami chuckled and stopped as his hikari caught up, he was limping and leaning slightly on a crutch. "It'd be so much easier if you'd just let me carry you Yugi." Yugi gave his yami a determined look. "I'm FINE! It was just an accident and I'm not hurt that bad!" He mumbled catching up. "Just...walk slower ok?" Yami smiled. "Ok...but when we get back to the game shop you're going straight to bed." Yugi stuck his tongue out at his yami. "Stop babying me! Its just a little sprain." Yami shook his head. "A little sprain?! For Ra's sake you were mauled! You tore a muscle in your leg, you sprained your wrist, AND you dislocated your shoulder!" He berated. "You're anything but FINE." Yugi scowled. "Yami, lighten up, Its just a few lil' things...I'll be up an around in no time flat!"

Yami walked over to the pharmacy, to pick up Yugi's prescription. Yugi grumbled and hobbled over to the magazines. "Heh heh heh if it isn't the great Yugi Mutoh!" Yugi grimaced. He knew that spiteful annoying voice miles away. "Haga..." He murmured turning to face him. "Have a little pony accident?" Haga snickered. "You're ALL over the front page, I would have never believed it..." He sniggered. Yugi glared. "Never believed that someone could be bucked off of an elderly horse! HA HA HA!!" He said bursting into laughter. Yugi frowned. "I cant believe the great Yugi is such a loser! You're WORSE than a loser, you're a complete MORON!"

Haga continued his slaughter of Yugi's pride until Yami caught sight of them. "Haga!" He glared daggers at the mint haired jerk. Haga looked up from the downtrodden Yugi. "Are you defending this loser? Just look at him! He's a moron and a half!" Yami scowled. "He's got bigger balls than you will ever have Haga, I'd like to see you get on a horse like that!" Haga blinked and Yugi jerked his eyes from the floor. He'd NEVER heard his yami talk like THAT before... "An old horse that's near DEATH? Sure why not?" Haga said glaring at Yami. "An old horse that tries to kill you Haga...try that and you'll hit closer to home. Unless you were there, you don't REALLY have a clue what happened."

Yami tapped his foot. "I didn't need to be there! Its all over the news!" Yami shook his head. "Then I ASSUME you knew that the horse was out of control, before you came to insult Yugi." Haga scowled. "I did indeed." Yami pushed Haga. "Then I ALSO assume that you also knew that Yugi stayed on that horse longer than anyone thought possible AND came out of it with MINIMAL injuries." Haga dusted his jacket off. "I don't need to prove myself to you or your little LOSER friend Yugi." He said shoving past Yami.

Yugi stared at Yami. "...where did you pick up that phrase?" Yami looked at his hikari. "What phrase?" Yugi chuckled a little. "The 'He's got bigger balls than you' one." Yugi said shaking his head. "Heard it on the television." Yami shrugged. "Its just slightly weird...you do know what that means...right?" Yami nodded. "I may be old, but I'm not THAT old. Its not that old of a phrase anyway. We said something similar in Egypt." Yugi smiled. "Well don't ever say that in front of grandpa...he'd have a heart attack."

"Ow...Ow..OWW!!" Yugi yelped as he put on his pajamas. Yami sighed. "I'll go get you one of those pills ok? Wait here." Yugi sighed. "Like I could go anywhere if I wanted to." he mumbled hobbling over to his bed and sitting down carefully. Yugi would have snuck out if he wasn't in so much pain at the moment. His shoulder throbbed from the movement, his leg was killing him and he was tired. Yami came in holding a cup of water. "Here.." He said handing Yugi the two oversized pills and a glass of water. Yugi frowned. "They're really big..." Yami sighed and sat next to his hikari. "You were REALLY hurt.." He said hugging his hikari lightly. "C'mon...take them and I promise to tell you a story about my life." Yami knew Yugi would agree on that condition. He was always asking him about Egypt and being a pharaoh. Sometimes it drove Yami insane. Yugi never seemed to run out of questions. "Ok.." Yugi said shoving the pills in his mouth and drinking the water. He gagged a bit. "Ugh...big pills..." He coughed, shaking his head.

Yami smiled. "Ok...A promise is a promise...what do you want to know about?" Yami said getting up and pulling up the bed sheets and covering Yugi up, before walking over to the dresser and pulling out his own pajamas. "Um...how about being a pharaoh? Was it fun?" Yugi grinned. His yami was like the most interesting book there ever was. Full of stories and histories that he had never known. Gods and mystic incantations that had faded into the mists of time long before Yugi was even born. "Well...It all depends...It was fun sometimes." Yami said unbuttoning his jacket and removing his shirt, before turning to face Yugi. "There were sad and angry times too." Yugi sat up a little, wincing at the movement. "How could it be sad?" He said smiling.

"Well...with all freedoms, there are boundaries. Egypt wasn't a safe place like it is in this age. If I didn't please the people, any one of them could have tried to kill me. I had to choose the best path for the people always, even if one path would have made them happier, I had to choose the path that would be better FOR them." Yugi blinked. "I bet those were some hard choices." Yami nodded. "Back then, the shadow games were a way of settling disputes between myself and my adversaries." Yami said pulling off his pants and beginning to put on his pajamas. "But it was fun right?" Yami chuckled and began buttoning the pajama shirt. "Yes, it was fun. If I had known what was coming, I would have done more fun things." Yugi smiled when Yami crawled into bed next to him. "What was fun back then?"

Yami thought for a moment. "Well, I was the pharaoh. I was a bit brat-ish sometimes...so I really got anything I wanted. I particularly loved to sneak out of my chamber to visit my friends. I would dress like a commoner and do whatever happened to be 'in' at the time." Yugi hugged his yami lightly. Yami smiled and kissed his hikari. "Are you going to pass out, when I finally have agreed to tell you a bit about my past Yugi?" he said hugging his hikari back gently. "No...no of course not!" Yugi said yawning. "I think your lying hikari..." Yami said laughing lightly and yawning as well. Yugi wrinkled his nose. "I can stay up JUST as late as you." Yami smiled. "When you aren't still on sedatives." Yami said shaking his head lightly.

Yugi groaned. "How about tellin' me about more Egypt stuff.." He mumbled annoyed that his Yami was babying him so much. "What sort of stuff?" Yami grinned. "Um...how about some of the stuff you did as a pharaoh. It sounds interesting." Yami nodded. "Well...there were the boring irrigation plans...there were plans for new pyramids..." Yugi blinked. "Why did you build those?" Yami coughed. "Well, most were for burial purposes...but a few weren't really...there were a few used as sacred altars to speak to the gods..."