Chapter six: mimi wo fusaide (returning of one)
I close my ears
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"Damn!" a voice cried.
Sakura hurried from the kitchen to kind Kero stuck in the washing machine again. She laughed and pulled the 'plush toy' out. "Kero-chan. Do you not remember what I said? You stand on this side, and you won't fall out." She sighed and walked out to the living room. Yugi was looking for things on T.V.
Yugi looked up. He gave his friend a smile, but she sighed and went back to the kitchen. Yugi then turned the TV to the news station, and smiled again. There was s Duel Monster's tournament going on. He quickly scribbled a note to Sakura, and ran out the door with a coat, his deck, and the puzzle.
"Yugi..?" Sakura asked as the door was closed. She moved into the living room, and wondered where he went. The note had been knocked under the table by the wind outside. Sakura ran through the house. "Kero! Kero! I can't find Yugi-chan!"
"Hai!" Kero nodded. "You go on after him, and I'll stay here. Just in case he calls. Maybe he went to Tomoyo's?"
"Iie, I don't think so!" Sakura grabbed her things. "Kero, I am going now!"
Sheila Summers backed up her things and sad good night to her band. She then hopped on her motorcycle, and started down the street. She spotted Sakura wandering the streets, and then honked at her, and pointed to a coffee shop. She then held her hand up in five minutes, and headed on over.
Sakura met Sheila there. "Summer-san? Have you seen Yugi?"
"No." Sheila sat down and then drank some mocha. She sighed and leaned up against the seat, and shifted in her red leather jacket. "When was the last time you saw him?"
"An hour ago." Sakura chocked. "He was sitting there in the living room, then he disappeared!" she covered her face. "First Yami is gone, then Yugi!"
"Yami?" Sheila asked, and leaned over to her. She looked at Sakura as she nodded. "Yami, that is the reason Yug is all depressed? Because this Yami is gone?"
"Yami was a brother too him." Sakura said. "Once Yami died from that snowboarding trip…"
"Snowboard?!" Sheila yelled and stood up, knocking over the chair. She looked down scardly at Sakura, and in shock. "Snowboard trick? At Mount Fiji!?" 'No! This can't be true!! She killed him! Yami must be the boy in my dreams! It is all her fault! Damn that Egyptian!' she shook her head from her thoughts. Suddenly she turned and frowned, a small purple eye appearing on her head. "Come on, Saku! I gotta bad feeling Yug is in trouble!"
Yugi looked up from his new cards. He had most of them already, but he didn't mind. Yugi then stopped by a small cliff and sat, letting the wind play with his hair. Something stomped, and Yugi turned around. There was a bully standing there. "Nani?"
"Yo kid, hand over da cards yer got!" the kid said. "I bet I would like 'em."
Yugi shook his head.
"What was that?"
"No."
The bully grabbed Yugi by the shirt colar, holding him over the cliff. "I know ya! Yer that Yugi kid! I am tellin' ya this now! Gimmie those cards, or die!"
Yugi tried to get away, but the hold became worse. He began to whimper and tried to get free, suddenly he met the ground and he looked up. The kid was standing with a knife in his hands. Yugi cried out and tried to get away, but his foot was stuck. Yugi felt hot tears running down his face, and he sobbed. "Yami!" he cried out to no one.
The kid advanced on Yugi, and then began to drive the knife down at him, but stopped. He turned around when someone tapped him on the shoulder, and punched him.
"You sicko!" Sheila yelled. She kicked him with her boot and sent him flying. "If I had the guts to kill you now, I would!" she rammed him into a tree. "If I ever catch you hurting Yug again, yer dead."
"Ya right sista." The kid laughed.
Sheila growled. 'I can't do this on my own,' she looked at Sakura who was tending to Yugi. 'and her cards can't help. I know this is going to take a lot out of me…' Sheila threw him, and walked up to Yugi. "Yug, tell me the name you just shouted."
"Yami.." Yugi breathed out as his chest ripped in pain.
"Cool." Sheila then ran up to the bully, and contitued to hurt him as she thought. Suddenly the puzzle glowed and Sheila was thrown back. She looked up to see the bully fall to his death over the side. She stood up, and felt dizzy. She grabbed her forehead, and pulled her gloved hand back. There was a blood stain. Sheila turned around, and was rammed down again. She opened up her eyes, now pinned against a wall.
"You are dead for that!" another kid said. "That was my friend!"
"No friends hurt innocent children." Sheila muttered through her dizziness. 'Just a few more moments…if I can hold out.' She then punched the next kid, and began to wrestle with him. Finally, her strength gave out, and she passed out.
"Summer-san!" Yugi cried out as his friend fell to the ground. He cried, and watched as Sakura tried to take on the kid, but failed.
Sakura was thrown into a tree, and cried. She then took out a card. "FIREY!" she tossed the card out, and a fire started around the boy. She then called the card back, and watched the frightened boy. Something then punched him off the cliff. Sakura stood up, not sure if what she saw was real or something she thought up. "Nani….I think I am going to be sick…" she muttered and fell to her knees. She felt someone pick her up, but blacked out.
Yugi watched from his hiding spot. He gasped as a tall figure helped Sakura up, but she fell down again. Yugi screamed and ran to her, not taking note of the older boy there. "Sakura-chan, Sakura-chan! Sakura!"
The older boy looked down at him, crimson eyes gleaming at the sight of him. The boy touched his shoulder, and jumped back as Yugi looked up at him. He still had Sakura in his arms.
Yugi's eyes widened as he looked at the spiked hair with black sticking up. His eyes widened. 'No, It can't be!' he thought of Yami falling from the cliff, then lying on the hospital bed. He jerked away from him, and was wheezing form the pain in his chest. 'No, this is a nightmare…I know it. Something is going to come out and hurt me, and kill everyone else!' he grabbed his head and cried. "Yami's dead!" he cried
The older boy seemed struck by Yugi's words, and felt his eyes welling up. He was right here. Did Yugi not see him? He placed Sakura down and tried to hold Yugi, but was pushed back. He felt tears running down his cheek. "Yugi…"
Yugi backed away. "Iie! Iie! Get away from me!" he stumbled down, and the boy grabbed his hand and helped him up. "Go away! Stop it, stop trying to be Yami!"
The boy grabbed Yugi's shoulders and shook him, and looked him dead in the eye. "Yugi, what do you see?" he asked, and a egyptian eye glowed on his forehead. "Please, aibou, tell me."
"How…can you…?" Yugi stuttered and wrapped his arms around him, and bawled.
"Sssh, aibou." Yami said. "I'm back."