That day, Yugi spent most of the time while working thinking of a way with Yami of how to warn Seto about the guards. But everytime he tried to make contact with Yami, one of his friends or one of Pegasus' guards would snap him out of it, never really an input with his Yami. Sometime during lunchtime, everything got way more interesting. Well, you'd call it that if you could call all what had happened already boring; but as Yugi would put it, it got way more dangerous.
After sitting down at his regular table, Yugi's eyes caught sight of Bakura. Normally, that wouldn't bring any alarm to the 13 year old boy, but this time, it did. A female guard, Giselle, stopped Bakura as he started to walk towards the table. She gripped onto the white haired boy's arm firmly, and she said a few things to him, Yugi couldn't hear, but by the look on Bakura's face, it wasn't good. Bakura struggled to get out of the full grown woman's grip, but she pulled him from the room, as he continued to struggle. Yugi's eyes widened. "Bakura," he whispered quietly.
Yugi felt fear for his friend, but also a bit of anger to Giselle. Whatever she was going to do to him wasn't good at all.
/Yami, something just came up, we have to get out of here./
//..Why? What's wrong, Aibou?//
/Didn't you see?/
//Actually, I was meditating, so I didn't see.//
/You meditate??/
//What? After everything that's happened so far, I've got to find a way to calm myself down.//
/Ah./
//Well, what came up?//
/A guard took Bakura away, and I have a hunch something bad will happen to him if we don't help./ /Ok./
Yugi broke the connection momentarily, and looked around. His eyes took on the appearance of Yami's, starting to feel Yami take over already.
Jounouchi eyed Yugi, "Hey, Yug, what's up?"
Yugi looked back at Jounouchi a bit startled. He was the only one there with him at this time, since his other friends were still in line waiting for 'lunch'. Yugi blinked a few times, "W-what do you mean?"
"Come on, Yug', you can tell me," Jounouchi grinned.
Yugi bit his lip, looking down. Jounouchi frowned, "Your...going, right? You know, out?"
Yugi nodded a bit.
Jounouchi stared at Yugi for a moment, then said, "Well, I ain't stoppin' ya. Go on, I know you can handle it."
Yugi looked up at the taller boy, "Gomen, Jounouchi-kun."
Jounouchi then stated, "Hey, youse were probably gonna do it anyway if I said not ta. Don't thank me. And, why suddenly call me 'Jounouchi-kun'? You usually jusy call me Jou."
Yugi smiled a little. "Just sounds better to me, I guess."
"Well, can you still call me Jou? I like dat better than Jounouchi-kun anyhow." Yugi smiled a little more, and nodded.
"Alright, then, Jou. And if the others ask where I am...well, you'll be able to see when you see how many people are at this table."
Jounouchi looked puzzled, "Um...alright, bro."
Yugi nodded, and fell to the ground from the chair he was sitting in. He grouched low to the ground, and crawled to get out of the room.
As he ran outside of Pegasus' giganitc castle, Yugi jumped up and shouted loudly, "YU-GI-OOOOOOOOH!!!" as he voice deepened into Yami's baratone voice, Yugi fell to the ground at the bottom of the steps. He landed on his feet crouched down, in the position resembling one's of a cat's. He stood up straight, and looked around; he didn't see anything. Yami narrowed his eyes straining his ears to hear. He heard a scream, sounding a lot like a british/girly boy's scream.
/Yep, that's difinatly Bakura./(A/N: Lol, sorry Bakura fans, couldn't resist! XD You gotta admit, Bakura soinds like a girl when he screams. Heck he sounds like a girl in general. Don't take that bashing seriously, I like Bakura, honestly. ~_^)
//Well, then let's go!//
Yami sprinted in the direction of Bakura's shrill scream, and after a while began to pant from tiredness, but continued to push himself to his limit. Yami stopped gratefully as he started to hear two people talking, one sounding female and in an tone of voice that you knew right away came from America, like Giselle's, and the other most difinatly Bakura's. Yami leaned against a nearby tree, and forced himself to breath quietly, even though he felt it very hard to do so after just finishing all that running. Heck, it was even compared to when he ran after his mother that one time, since he was on the other side of the castle this time, and he ended up having to run in many different directions to find Bakura's voice, when the last time, he just had to run forward!
"Come on, kid, for the last time, tell me!"
"I told you, I don't know what you're talking about!" came Bakura's voice.
"Liar! You damn liar! I saw you, so tell me, now, or a world of hurt is going to come your way!"
Yami heard Bakura gulp. "I-I-I t-t-told you, I d-don't k-k-k-know what your t-t-talking about, G-Giselle, m-ma'am!"
Yami heard Giselle growl.
"Um, you'd r-rather be called m-miss?" Bakura laughed nervously.
"No, I'd rather you tell me what the f*** you were doing!"
"I, uh...I, uh..."
"Ok, that's it kid, you won't tell me, so I'll just have to force it out of you!"
Yami narrowed his eyes, and glanced back at Giselle and Bakura. He growled lowly as Giselle raised her cream coloured hand, above Bakura. Bakura winced, waiting for the slap to come.
"Stop!" Yami shouted out, coming out from the shadows of the other trees. Giselle and Bakura looked his way, Bakura looking half relieved half surprised, and Giselle just really surprised. With a look of anger and courage on his face, Yami announced, "Leave Bakura alone. He's done nothing to you, you don't have the right to strike him."
"And if I don't listen to a punk kid like you?" Giselle sneered, a smirk crossing her face.
Yami sighed, "Why does everyone always have to ask that?" Yami shook his head, and looked back at Giselle his expression never changing, "If you don't listen, then you'll be sorry. Although, we could always just play a game to settle this.."
Giselle blinked a few times, then said, "I don't need to play your silly games, kid. Buzz off, go back in the castle like a good little boy and wash some dishes or something." Giselle then let out a cruel laugh. Bakura's face changed to a grim expression, but Yami wasn't fazed. Giselle stared at Yami for a moment, "What, don't find that funny?"
"I don't find things that aren't funny in the first place amusing, Giselle." Yami replied calmly, crossing his arms and raising an eyebrow. Yami smirked as Giselle started to look angry and growl. "Besides, are you scared of playing a game with me? Can't you beat just a 'little kid'?" Yami asked mockingly.
Giselle narrowed her eyes underneath her sunglasses angerly, and grinted her teeth; Yami's plan of getting to her had worked. "Oh, you think I'm scared, punk? Well, I'm not, I'm just in the middle of something here!"
Yami's smirk widened a little bit, "Prove it. Prove your not scared, play my game."
"Fine, whatever makes you happy and gets you that hell outta here!" Giselle hissed.
Yami nodded, his smirk still placed on his face. "We'll play a pretty simple game, even you can understand it. First of all, we need some money, about 40 000 yen--"
Yami was cut off by Giselle, "Oh, so you wanna mug me, eh?" she sneered, "No way in hell I'm going to let you punk me!"
Yami rolled his eyes, "I'm not going to steal it, baka. It's for the game. First of all, we need that money, then a knife. The object of the game is to get as much money as you can. To do so, you stab the money with the knife, while the other person holds the money. Whatever money is on the knife, you keep for your score. Whoever has the most money in the end, wins. But one very strong word of caution-- you cannot stab the other person to get the money, otherwise, you automatically lose."(A/N- This game was actually used in the manga Yu-Gi-Oh! ^-^)
Giselle nodded, "Very well then." She dug in her pocket, and pulled out a knife covered in thick red silk cloth. The knife had the appearence that it was used often. Afterwards, she pulled out some yen. She counted it up, then looked up at Yami, after flinging her sunglasses away from her eyes to see more clearly, reveiling hard brown eyes. "Is 200 000 yen OK?"
Yami shrugged, "Sure. And by the way, before we start this game, the stakes are that if you win, you can do whatever you want with me. But if I win-- then I decide you fate."
"Whatever, kid," She snorted. "Which of us go first?"
"I'll go first," Yami stated. With a slight look of suspicsion drawn on her face, Giselle handed Yami the knife reluctantly. Giselle held out the stack of yen in her hand, shut her eyes tightly, and waited for the impact of the knife, not sure if Yami would go out on the rules.
When he noticed Giselle was no longer looking, Yami glanced at Bakura, and moved his head in a movement that said clearly, 'Go on, get out of here'. Bakura go the message, and nodded, and ran into the forest, not noticing the slightly evil look on his face. Yami looked back at Giselle after Bakura left, and breathed out quietly. Part one was over, now to just finish this game. Yami then stuck the knife into the pile of yen Giselle was holding.
Giselle felt the kinfe go through the stack of money, coming closer and closer...but it never it her hand. She opened her eyes as Yami pulled out the knife, pulling the yen off of the knife. Yami counted the yen up, and stated in monotone, "I got 5500 yen. Your turn," Yami placed the yen down beside his feet, then held the knife out to Giselle calmly.
Giselle blinked a few times cluelessly, then took the knife from Yami. She clenched it in her hand tightly, as Yami took the remaining money. Giselle stuck the knife into the stack of money resembling the way Yami did so. She even thought of sinking it all the way through, though, but dismissed the thought; this was only a game, afterall. He couldn't do anything to her anyway...which also lead her to think back to sinking the knife all the way down again. When she lifted the knife from the stack of money, She counted it up. "3000 yen," she grumbled.
It continued on like that for a while longer, which came to the point where Giselle had gained 90500 yen, and Yami had with him 91000 yen. And, it was Giselle's turn next. After Yami handed her the knife, Giselle hesitated for a moment. All she needed to win the game was 18500 yen left to win the game. She may had been losing, but not by much; she could still pull it off. But by doing so, she could risk sinking the knife into Yami's hand, and end up being disqualified. Then, she thought, Oh well, it's my yen in the first place. Besides, what can he do if I do stab him? Giselle did her best to hold back a smirk. "To hell with my conscious, he just better pray to god that he doesn't get hit with that damn knife.
Yami raised an eyebrow at Giselle when she hesitated, and about 20 seconds had past. "Well, what are you waiting for?" he asked, straighting out the yen then placing them flat in his palm again out towards her, "Go already."
Giselle looked at Yami, and nodded. You should have just waited it out, kid, because now a world of hurt is just going to come sooner than you think.Giselle then stuck the knife into the pile of money, sinking it further and further along. She was sure by now, after about 5 seconds that it was going to tear through Yami's skin any second..
Yami winced a little as the knife scratched his palm. But, it didn't go any further than that, though, as the eye of Horus started to glow brightly on Yami's forehead. Seeing the puzzled expression creeping up on Giselle's tanned face, Yami boomed, "You have broken the rules! You have lost! Now, I will decide your fate!"
Giselle stared at him wide-eyed. "What the hell--??" she sputtered. She then regained her cool, and smirked, "Well, what are you going to do about me then? Huh?"
Yami smirked along with Giselle, shadowing her's, "Well, the shadow realm always has enough space for more souls," he said casually.
"What the hell?! You bloody insane??" Giselle blinked, "What the hell you talkin' about?"
Yami then said coolily, ignoring Giselle's last comment, "No, I don't think so. I have something else in mind." Yami stuck out his palm towards Giselle. Giselle felt her heart race for some reason, taking a few steps back; instincts she never knew she had were kicking in on all angles, and they were saying 'get the hell out of there' 'that guy means buisness' and 'your funeral is coming'.
"Mind crush!" boomed Yami, the eye of Horus glowing on his forehead even brighter than before.
Before Giselle could react, or even know what the hell was happening, she felt a flash of pain sweep over her, and a gush of cold wind and gravity hit her. She screamed out, feeling something vital being pulled from her head. She fell back to the ground, shaking violently with fear and surprise and was even caught whimpering, her brown eyes seemingly glazed over, and a slightly crazed look on her face.
/Yami, what did you do to her??/
//I made sure she wouldn't ever hurt anybody again, Aibou.//
/By what, driving her insane?/
//Well, you can say she's not 'all in there' anymore..//
/But Yami, why? You didn't have to do that! You could have just...erased her memory like you did before with those other guards../
//I'm sorry if I made you mad Aibou--//
/I'm not even sure I can trust you anymore after this, Yami. If you can do this...what else can you do? You could seriously hurt someone who doesn't even deserve it. I don't even think Giselle deserved to be driven insane. I don't even think Pegasus would deserve that at this point, even though I hate him like there's no tomorrow. It would be best if he was just put in jail or something../
//But, Aibou, she did, and Pegasus isn't even here at this time. And she could have hurt your friend Bakura, and would have hurt anyone else that got in her way. I mearly just stopped her.//
/Even so, I just...never expected it from you, Yami../
//I'm sorry, Aibou, I won't do anything against your wishes again.//
/How can I be sure? After the last year, I'm not quite sure to be able to trust anyone, except for really Jou and you. But now../
//But Aibou, you can trust me!//
/I'm taking over, Yami. I'm going back./
//Yugi--!//
Yami fell the floor, now as Yugi, and holding back tears. Now, he felt so alone. He couldn't even trust Yami anymore, so what was the world coming to? Crashing and burning as far as Yugi could tell. Yami was there for him, to comfort him when he had nightmares, and to make sure that he was safe, and never caught when he went to rescue someone from Pegasus' guards. But now...
Yugi curled up into a small ball on the ground, staring at Giselle with silent tears falling down his soft peach cheeks. Making sure to keep the connection between him and Yami was blocked off, Yugi just stared at Giselle, as she started to murmur to herself, "Money...my money, all mine..."
"Y-yugi..?"
Yugi at first thought it was Yami breaking through the block between the two, but then reconized it as a different voice. With another tear falling down his cheek, he turned around to face the person the voice had come from.
It was Seto, staring on in shock, seemingly not knowing whether to keep his attention on the crying boy, or Giselle. "What happened here, Yugi?" he murmured, gingerly rubbing his head while doing so, his briefcase in his other hand.
Yugi sniffed, then whispered, "Hello, Seto."
"What in bloody hell happened here?"
"I.." Yugi hastily changed the subject, remembering something else, "Seto, you have to get out of here! People think you killed--"
Yugi was cut off by hearing some gasping from behind him. Yugi and Seto looked that way, and their eyes widened in shock, fear, and disbelief. There before the two, were Panchito, Denki, and Rintaro. Panchito was by Giselle's side trying to revive her out of insanity, while Rintaro looked angry, and Denki as if trying to remember something from the back of his head.
"W-wait..." The muscular man Denki started, "I-I remember you! Your that kid, Yami! Or you at least look like him. But, a-anyway, you beat me in that duel, and beat me and the other guards up! But why did I forget that..?" he added the last part quietly to himself.
Damn, looks like Yami's memory spell wore off, Yugi thought bitterly.
"Yami? Who's Yami?" Seto puzzled, looking at Yugi questionably.
Yugi looked up at Seto innocently, "Umm.."
Rintaro shook his head, "Who cares, Demetri?--"
"Don't call me that!"
Rintaro laughed coldly at Denki, "Whatever. Anyway, both you are wanted. At least that brunette over there. But I'm betting 'Yami' over there would be wanted too, if your story is true, Denki. I'm startin' to remember too, so your both wanted now!" Rintaro grinned evilly, "And it looks like we found youse."
"Not only that," Panchito added angrily, picking up Giselle while standing up, "I have a feeling you both have something to do with this. Lesse, before both of you could have just been slaves totally for Pegasus for the rets of your miserable lives, but now, it looks like you two are heading to death row here." The Spanish man glared at the two, an evil grin creeping up his face, matching Rintaro's grin.
"Uh-oh, we're in trouble," Yugi gulped, standing up. Just when you think things can't get any worse..
"No, we're in a field prancing 'round happily filled with little white rabbits and birds singing their songs," Seto said sarcastically.
Yugi frowned at Seto as if saying, 'Now's not the time to start up on a sarcasism kick'. Seto shut his mouth before his head could disagree.
"Get 'em!" Panchito suddenly shouted. Rintaro and Denki both picked up random sticks(which were pretty big, actually) and raced for the two. Yugi, thankfully was small in height, and ducked down as Denki swung the stick at his head. Seto did the same, but ended up flat on his butt after Rintaro's stick swung by, barely missing his hair. Suddenly, of all times, Seto's head started to ache again from the possible concussion growing on his head. Seto hissed in pain, but was soon realieved of it as Rintaro swung the stick/log at him, hitting his head dead on in his moment of weakness-- right on where his poisslbe concussion was. It instantly knocked him out, and his body lay lifeless on the ground.
"Seto!" Yugi shouted. Yugi was about to run after him, when Denki picked him up by his shirt collar. Yugi started to kick and flail his arms like mad to get loose and to check on Seto. "Not so tough now are ya, Yami, eh?" Denki sneered.
"Oh come on, Denki, just knock him out and get it over with!" Panchito hissed, as Rintaro picked up Seto.
Denki grinned. "Alrighty then." Then, after feeling something hard hit him in the back of the head, Yugi felt darkness engulf him.
Yami would have taken over by then, and kicked Denki's butt if not for two things-
a)That would be going against Yugi's wishes, since he didn't want Yami using his body.
b)Strangely enough, Yami was also knocked unconscious, while trying to connect with his Aibou again, the blow went straight through to him, too, and knocked him out as well.
What's a multi-coloured hair, and definately not normal, kid to do now?
~To Be Continued...
A/N: Don't you just love evil cliffies? ~_^ Lol. Please review! I want input/praise badly! ^___^
