Yugi was scared.
The gaps in his memory were getting more and more frequent, and now, people told him things that he didn't remember ever doing, people around him were all getting hurt or going crazy and he couldn't help but think that it was his fault.
"Yugi! How dare you ignore me?!" His mother stormed into his room.
"B-but I didn't! Did you call me?"
"I saw you walking through the house like a zombie, called you, and you just kept walking!"
"S-Sorry! I was just lost in my thoughts!" When did that happen? He didn't leave his room, did he?
Yugi sighed, was he right in the head? Was he going crazy?
"Hey, Yugi! Wanna grab something to eat?" Katsuya took him out of his thoughts. Class was already over? Yugi didn't even notice.
"S-sure! We could go to that new Burger World in the city! Everyone says that their food is great! Anzu, wanna come with us?" Maybe some tasty, greasy food would take his mind out of his problems.
"No! I heard some terrible things about that place! I heard that people got really sick the day they opened! You shouldn't go there!" She invaded his personal space.
"Really?" Yugi asked in confusion, he heard great things about the place, "Then let's go to the Calorie Burger in front of the station!"
"Sorry, I have some chores to do today. Besides, you should go straight home, didn't you hear that there was an escaped convict running around?"
"You're right! Jonouchi-kun, forget the burger! We should go straight home!"
"What? You're scared? If he comes after us, I'll beat the crap out of him!" Katsuya said.
"Are you crazy? He has a gun!" Katsuya would never imagine that Yugi wasn't afraid of what the criminal could do to him, but what HE could do to the criminal.
Anzu slipped out of the class while the boys were distracted.
"Hey, Yugi…Don't you think that Anzu is acting a little weird those days?"
"Now that you mention it, she hasn't been to my house for a few days already."
"If my instincts are correct, I think she's doing compensated dating!" He grinned.
"...Isn't that just softcore prostitution?" Yugi was unimpressed.
"Well…"
"Dude, she's not a prostitute, don't even think about that." Yugi calmed himself, he was starting to get angry and when he got angry he blacked out, he already had enough memory gaps and he didn't want to hurt his friend.
"There's only one way to find out! Let's tail her!"
The duo stalked Anzu until they saw her enter a building.
"That's where her sugar daddy is waiting!"
"Jonouchi-kun… that's the Burger World." Yugi pointed at the giant sign over the building.
The duo approached the entrance and Anzu, dressed as a waitress, jumped out to greet them.
"Hello! Welcome to the Burger World! Let me…show you…to your…seats…" She slowly walked back in.
"Well…that's awkward…" Katsuya said as they entered the restaurant.
"Jonouchi-kun…we shouldn't have come here! Anzu is furious!"
"Now we know why she didn't want us here!" Katsuya chuckled.
"I still think that we shouldn't have come…but…she did look cute in the uniform…" Yugi muttered under his breath, Katsuya smiled at his friend's reactions.
While the friends talked, Anzu came back with their food and slammed the tray into their table, "Have plenty of our famous ketchup!" She wrote a message over their hamburgers.
Tell and you die!
"C-Calm down, Anzu! We're not telling anyone, right?" Katsuya asked his friend who nodded furiously.
"I…I guess I have nothing to hide now. After graduation, I'm going to America to study dance in New York! That's my dream, don't you dare laugh!"
"A dancer? Like a strip-OUCH!" Yugi kicked Katsuya's shin before he could finish the phrase.
"We would never laugh at you! Right, Jonouchi-kun?"
"Yeah, don't worry about that, Anzu. We're not telling on you, and it'll only cost you 10.000 burgers! And you can start by bringing another one to me! I'm not eating this thing drowned in ketchup!"
Anzu laughed, "Those are on the house!"
"New York sounds very cool, right?" Yugi happily chewed his ketchup covered burger.
"Yeah, I thought she just wanted some pocket money but that was a very cool reason." Katsuya ate his burger after carefully scraping all of the ketchup off the bun.
"Alright! If anyone makes a sound this bitch's brain will cover the walls!" A man screamed from the entrance.
Yugi and Katsuya immediately looked towards the noise, finding a man holding Anzu at gunpoint, "The escaped convict!" Yugi started sweating.
"I'll be going as soon as I fill my belly, until then, you're staying with me, girlie." The man told Anzu to blindfold herself and took her to an empty table, "Hey, you! The short brat with weird hair! Get me some booze and cigarettes!" Anzu froze.
Yugi quickly brought the man's order, but Anzu suddenly got up and yelled, "Yugi! Run!" receiving a slap from the man in response.
Yugi blacked out.
Anzu was terrified. Her cheek hurt, she had a gun pointed at her and Yugi was in real risk of getting murdered. Could this day get any worse? She only wanted a job! Was this divine punishment for getting a job despite school regulations?
"Here's your order, sir." A cocky and sarcastic male voice said from across the table, was it really Yugi?
"Who the fuck gave you permission to sit?"
"I just thought that you would want some entertainment with your drink, sir. Maybe you would be interested in a game?"
"Who the hell is this? He sounds like Yugi, but it can't be him. Whoever he is, he's insane!" Anzu started feeling uneasy, did someone call the cops and he was stalling? Was he trying to be a hero?
"A game, huh? Fine, I accept. What game are you talking about?"
"It's very simple! We try to kill each other, but we can only move one finger! What finger do you choose?"
What kind of fucked up game was this? He was going to get her killed!
"My index finger, of course! I only need to twitch it and I'll burst a hole in you!"
"I'll choose my thumb!"
Anzu felt her eye twitch, it was official! Her savior was suicidal!
"Game start!"
"And game over!" Anzu braced herself, but the shot never came.
She heard a lighter being lit.
"Ha! I totally forgot to ask for a lighter! Fine, you can light my cig before dying!"
"How generous!" Anzu had already given up on living enough to see her first payment.
"Keep the lighter! It's on the house!" Anzu felt the heat nearby, did the mysterious guy put the lighter near her?
The criminal still didn't shoot.
"I wouldn't shoot if I were you, the recoil will drop the lighter into the alcohol. By the way, that's the strongest vodka I've found!"
What the actual fuck?
"Let's go, Anzu!" The mysterious man pulled Anzu by the wrist, "How does he know my name? I guess he heard Yugi calling me."
Anzu heard someone screaming in pain and felt a sudden heat behind her, "Wait, did he really…?"
"You should wait here, the police will arrive soon and take care of things." The mysterious man said.
Anzu took her blindfold out and looked behind her, but immediately turned her eyes away, "Here goes one week of sleep!" She would've puked if she had food in her stomach.
She looked around, looking for the crazy guy who saved her, but there was no one nearby.
"Hey, what happened? I heard that asshole screaming and saw the fire, but I couldn't see exactly what happe-WHAT THE FUCK?!" Jonouchi screamed when he saw the corpse, "W-what the hell happened here?"
"I-I don't know! I was blindfolded the whole time, someone played a kill-each-other game with the criminal and then disappeared! And I don't know what happened with Yugi!" She looked around desperate, waiting for her friend to appear.
"I'm here!" The short boy came running, "Sorry, I went to the kitchen to get the criminal his alcohol and cigarettes but someone knocked me out! What happe-OH MY GOD!" He emptied his stomach.
The police quickly arrived and questioned everyone inside the restaurant, but they weren't much help. Anzu was blindfolded, Yugi was unconscious in the kitchen and the rest of the hostages were too far to see what happened with any significant detail. They tried to get the security footage but all the cameras mysteriously stopped working.
"Hey, I'll take you two home." Katsuya offered his friends as he was the least affected by the event, while Anzu was shaken and Yugi still hadn't stopped trembling and jumping with any fast moving thing that happened in his peripheral vision.
But Anzu knew Yugi better than anyone, his eyes had fear, panic and anxiety, but not surprise.
Yugi didn't sleep that night, not only because he saw a burnt dead body but because he was the one who killed that man.
He was a murderer! A dangerous, insane, murderer!
Yugi washed his face, but when he looked into the mirror, what he saw would haunt him forever.
His reflection obviously looked exactly like him, but he knew that he wasn't looking at himself. The reflection had a sadistic grin, messy hair and the coldest eyes that Yugi ever saw, it stood proud and confident in contrast to Yugi slouched and shy posture, giving the impression of being taller than Yugi himself.
Yugi blinked, and his reflection went back to normal.