Chapter 2: Rock Bottom

*2 Months Ago*

Yugi Motou walks into the Community Homeless Center, hoping for a reprieve from his life in general...

As he swung his backpack onto a neighbooring bench, and sat down on the cracking old board he thought, *Could it be possibly ANY worse!?...*

As he buried his mind in his text books, he thought about how he had to move into this arcaic old rusted house...with a bunch of pickpockets and victims of the IRS.

*3 Weeks Earlier*

A Blinding light flashed in Yugi's eyes as he ran down the hospital's corridors...nearly knocking down a nurse in the process...

As she screamed at him to watch where he was going, Yugi only thought about his Grandfather and how he couldnt die...not now, when he needed him the most...

As Yugi skidded to a stop near his Granpa's Hospital Bed, he rushed to his side...

It pained Yugi to see his once vibrant Grandfather hooked up to all sorts of tubes and gadgets...and so...empty...

He looked up at Yugi with sad tired eyes and said, "When I go...please take care of the shop..."

Yugi held his Grandpa's hand and said, "NO...I wont let you go...I need your help..."

His Grandpa forced a weak smile and said, "There are things you have to learn for yourself, and..*cough*...comprehend...your decisions...*cough*...decide your future Yugi..."

Then he went into a mad coughing fit...and his heart monitor stopped...

"Grandpa...stop playing games with me..." Yugi said, clenching his Grandpa's hand tighter...But he finally realized his Grandpa was dead...

As Yugi let go of his hand, and the Nurse covered him with a blanket, he thought "Where do I go now?..."

Thats when a woman wearing a light purple dress, obviously looking as if she had just thrown them on in a minute, smoking a cigarette...Her shoulder length Brown hair wasnt combed properly, (in fact it was stringy and let loose) and her eyes were a little watery and tired...

"Excuse me miss..." said the Nurse, "No Cigarettes allowed..."

Then Yugi stuck out his hand to interrupt the Nurse, "No its okay...she's my Mother..."

The Nurse gaped, noticing litte to no similarities in the both of them...besides each other's eyes...

"The Old Man finally croaked eh?" she said, sarchastically...

"Why are you always like that?" Yugi said angrily, "Dont you have any respect?"

"Well as long as your under MY roof, youll respect ME or..." Yugi's mom said, "Youll respect my bitch slap...got it?'

Yugi sweatdropped, and turned to look at his blanket-covered Granpa...But snapped back to look at his mom when she said, "Time to go deary.." (She says that in an suager-sweet sarchastic tone, just to annoy Yugi) "We have to go to the Will hearing for your gramps..."

As they left the Hospital, Yugi could overhear his mom saying things about his Granpa he wish she wouldnt...*stupid bastard.idiot.*

But it couldnt be helped, his mom, as he knew, is a drunk as well as a crack-addict...

Yugi sighed as he remembered the one time, Yugi's Granpa, or Yugi's Mom's Dad, tried to convince her to stop it...stop the fatal addiction

As Yugi hid in the corner crying and scared from all the screaming, his Grampa wound up with 3 big bloody scratch marks on his face, and a painful groin, but also custody of Yugi...

That was until today...

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End Chapter 2