Be Strong

Disclaimer: I don't own this

Notes: Sorry for the delay and short chapters. I, as I have tried to stress in the past, am sooooooooooo busy. This is a little break I have right before mother's day...so I decided to write...be thankful.

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Yami got to the screams faster then he had thought he would have. He was a bit tired but mostly fine.

"Yugi, stay here, in the shadows and don't show yourself until I am done fighting," Yami said as he set Yugi down in a shadowed part, Yugi didn't even have sight of the fight.

Yami ran off and checked the situation. There were four guys, one boy in black being held by one of the guys, and another off to the side on the ground, most likely knocked out. First thing to do is to get the boy away from then, and then he could take care of them.

Yami cracked his knuckles; he hoped he hadn't lost his fighting touch. He had to learn it incase he was unable to call upon the powers of the shadow realm to protect him.

"Hey, pick on someone your own size!" Yami called out making he presents known.

"No, this one has a lot more value on its head," The guy holding the boy called out.

He then tried to knock the boy out. Yami was too fast for him though; he got to him in a blink and knocked the guy in the stomach. Getting the wind knocked out of him made the man drop the boy and clutch him stomach.

The boy with black hair and an orange bandanna ran off to the boy with brown hair and tired to wake him. Yami went to fighting the guys off.

Yugi tried to do as Yami had asked and to stay out of sight but he just couldn't. He could here them fighting and all he wanted to do is cover his ears. It sounded so much like his parent's when they fought.

Yugi inched into what he thought was out of sight, but it wasn't.

Yami who had tired to keep him mind on the fight kept looking back to see if Yugi was okay. Unfortunately the ring leader saw how Yami attention was on Yugi and Yugi's on him, it didn't take them a while to figure out that if they took the small boy then the one that was un-ceremonially kicking their ass would have no choice then to forfeit.

"Go get the kid, he looks weak," the leader whispered to one of his henchmen. He took off without Yami or Yugi noticing. Then the other two henchmen got Yami into a stronghold, one held and the other punched him in the stomach. Yami took the pain without a change in facial expression.

Yugi had curled up into a little ball as soon as he saw the hit Yami. He closed his eyes and held his hands over his ears to try and block out the sound. He didn't even see the man coming or hear him.

The guy grabbed Yugi, which wasn't hard, and pulled him out of the corner with his feet kicking.

Yami saw this and he heart dropped. 'Yugi no, I told you to stay out of sight!' Yami mentally yelled. He knew these guys would kill both of them now; they had obviously ruined a very important plan.

Yami's thoughts were unfortunately true as he saw the leader pull a knife from his shoe.

On the side the little boy was shaking and calling his older brothers name. "Seto, wake up, the guys that saved us are about to get hurt, please Seto wake up!" The boy yelled.

"Mokuba," Seto moaned as he came back to the world of the conscious.

"Seto, you have to help them, the guys got a knife," Mokuba said as he helped him sit up. Seto shook his head and looked around sure enough one of the boys was already bleeding.

Evidentially all of Yugi's struggling had made the man avoid a fatal blow. Seto quickly rose to his feet and knocked the guy with the knife out.

With their leader off his feet the other dropped the two boys and ran. Yami quickly went over to Yugi who was holding his bleeding arm.

Seto also went to se how he was along with Mokuba. "How can I thank you, my name is Seto Kaiba and this is my little brother Mokuba," Seto said shaking Yami's hand.

"K-Kaiba, t-t-t-the owner o-of Kaiba c-c-c-corp." Yugi stuttered. Seto shook his head as he checked out Yugi's arm.

"It's doesn't look to deep, if you just wrap it when you get home I think you will be fine," Seto told Yami. Yami's head shot up, damn they really had to get home, they were already late.

Yugi tried to stand up but ended up falling back down. He was weak from not having much food in his body and now the loss of blood was getting to him.

Yami knelt near Yugi and allowed the small boy to climb on. Then they took off towards their home.

Now we all know Seto is a smart individual, he had gotten a good look at Yugi's arms and leg as well as his body. Seto just took Mokuba's hand and went home.

Yami got Yugi home just in time to get Yugi in his room before his parent's noticed. He bandaged up his arm and let the boy sleep. He would get some food into him later.

Back at the Kaiba mansion Seto was sitting down to relax. He clicked the stereo on and just let what ever song was on play out:

"That young boy without a name In many ways I see his face In this city the kids my favorite And I see him see him, well I see him everyday"

Seto went to change the station but something inside him stopped something about the two boys he had met earlier.

"I see him run outside looking for a place to hide From his father, the kids half naked, and I say to myself Wow what's the matter here? I have heard the excuses everybody uses It's your kid, just do as you see fit But who gave you the right, to do this To your own flesh and blood"

Seto's dropped the stereo remote, that boy, the cuts, the bruises, how thin he was, God that poor boy.

"I have heard the excuses, everybody uses It's your kid, just do as you see fit But get this through that I don't approve What you do, to your own flesh and blood"

It all snapped in Seto's mind, Yugi, the younger boy, he was abused by his parents. Seto frowned, he wanted to help the boy, and after all he had saved him and his brother. Seto thought about it, he didn't even know the kids names. If he ever saw then again he swore to help them if he ever saw them again.

"Answer me, take your time What could be the awful crime? He could do, at so young an age If I'm the only witness to your madness Offer me some words to balance out What see and what I here Oh these cold, cruel things that you do I suppose you, because he belongs to you And instead love the feel of warmth You given him these cuts and sores That don't heal, with time or age,"

Seto felt a hot tear roll down his check; this guy was going through living hell at his house while Seto and Mokuba had a whole mansion to themselves. He was going to do something even if it meant risking his own life.

Yami had been watching Yugi sleep when he heard the thumping of the stairs. "Shit they are coming," Yami swore, he had to get Yugi out of their.

Yugi slowly woke, he was still tired but there was some loud noise coming near him. As soon as it clicked in his mind that his parent's were coming.

Yugi's eyes shot open with fear. He noticed Yami was their and he looked like he was going to fight.

"Yami get into the puzzle now!" Yugi pleaded.

"NO Yugi, you are not going to take this anymore!"

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I hope you like. The song was called, "What's the matter here," and I think it's by Natalie Merchant and the 10,000 maniacs. I thought it fit in the story. That's not the whole song; I made it so that he was thinking while the song was going on in the background. Hope you liked, review!