Chapter 10 - Escape and Recovery
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Yami held Yugi tight in his arms; they were both frightened. They had almost been seen at least ten times, and Ohjioru (Their companion) had attacked and killed one of the people who he said had tortured him on his first few years in the Institute. Yugi was terribly frightened when he saw it with his own eyes, that he had buried his face into Yami's side. He could no longer cry, for what he had seen and been through brought him way past tears and crying.
"This way, I need to do something before we leave." Ohjirou (the old man) whispered slowly, and stared around the hall. "I've been down this way before. But I'll need your help to succeed."
"Alright. What do we have to do? Does it endanger Yugi's life in any way?" Yami glared at the man suddenly. Perhaps this man isn't trustworthy, he thought to himself, making sure that Yugi couldn't hear him.
"No, no, no. It endangers my life at most. But it will save hundreds or thousands of people, hopefully." He growled at Yami, and gave him an equally distrustful glare. "I don't trust you either. So we're even, can we get a move on now?" Yami sighed, and nodded, still glaring at the back of the man's head.
They crept silently behind Ohjirou, and made their way slowly to a small room. It was filled with screens that watched the halls of the building.
"If they have this, why haven't we been seen yet?" Yugi whispered, looking around with a paranoid look on his face.
"Because, they only check this place every ten or twenty minutes. And their tapes are ten minutes behind, so that they never miss anything." Ohjirou said with a matter of fact tone, and then said "They really are lazy," under his breath. He went to work by typing on various keyboards, and a program popped up on one of the screens. He smiled, and worked at cracking the password as quickly as possible. "Yes!" He exclaimed.
"What?" Yami looked down at the screen, and then to Yugi, who was shivering uncontrollably.
"They haven't changed the password form the last time I tried hacking their system." He laughed.
"What happened last time?" Yugi whispered weakly.
"I forgot that I have ten minutes from when I hack their database until they notice something's wrong." He smiled, and hit the 'enter' button, and let out a laugh. "Hurry, go straight down that hallway, and don't turn right or left until you get to the end of the hallway, there you can turn left, and there is a door at the end of that hall, it leads outside. Hurry, before the ten minutes are up. I've unlocked all of the cellar doors, and the lights were turned on. You've only got a few minutes before they notice!" He leaned back in the chair, and gripped the sides of it.
"What about you?" Yami raised an eyebrow at him.
"This is what I want, for everyone to escape, hopefully they all will. Then I'm going to destroy the building the only way I know how. There's a gas chamber, if I light a match there, well, I'll have everything I ever wanted." He smiled, and Yami stared at the crazy old man.
"No, you have to come, too! You couldn't possibly want to die!" Yugi let go of Yami's arm that he used to stay standing up straight, and he leaned his arms against the chair, and stared at Ohjirou. "Please?"
"No time." He whispered, and they heard shouts coming from somewhere nearby. "You had better hurry, not much time left, now. Go! Now!" Yami grabbed Yugi by his arm, and ran, dragging him down the hall to the exit, as fast as he could after running all night.
"Yugi, I can't pull you the whole way home!" Yami whispered between breaths.
"I - I know." Yugi whispered, and started to run as fast as his little legs would carry him (Sarah: Awwww! Kawaii! I could so see chibi Yugi right now being dragged by Yami! Anyway, back to the story!).
They stopped running when they found a small clearing in the forest, and Yugi dropped to his knees beside Yami, both were panting hard. Yugi held his face in his hands. He felt sick from what he had seen and heard while he was there. And the fact that the people would rather die than see another day of light was rather disturbing. He had seen one of them kill another human being, just like that. Yugi relived the moment, and was brought out of his trance when he felt a warm hand on his shoulder. Yugi closed his eyes for a moment, and a very worried Yami picked him up, and carried him for a little ways, Yugi's head resting on his shoulder, his eyes never closed for a second.
"Yugi?" Yami asked gently with worry filling his voice.
"Hai, Yami?" Yugi asked in a small voice, barely loud enough for Yami to hear.
"I was just making sure you were still awake." Yami whispered, and walked for what seemed like hours until they finally got back home. The sun had already moved up high into the centre of the sky, and was heating up the air rapidly. Yugi could feel the heat wrapping itself around him, but he still shivered.
Yami carried Yugi into their home, and made sure Yugi was lying comfortably on his side, on the couch, before he ran to the phone, and called to police. He called the police, and informed them of the situation in the institute, and they told him that they would send over some vehicles to investigate the situation immediately, and that later on one officer would pay Yami and Yugi a visit to question them. Yami simply said yes to everything, and hung up the phone at the end of their conversation, with an odd look spreading across his face.
"Yugi?" Yami peered down at Yugi, and waited until his eyes snapped open. "I'm going to take you to the hospital, alright? You don't look so well." Yami pushed the golden locks of hair out of Yugi's face, and Yugi nodded slowly, and closed his violet eyes again.
He picked up Yugi's small shivering body, and carried him all the way to the hospital with much effort. He, too, was physically exhausted. When he got to the hospital, he collapsed on the floor in front of the front desk, Yugi still wrapped in his arms.
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"Umm. Young sir?" A voice penetrated the darkness in which Yugi was floating. Yugi felt himself open his eyes, but he could barely see around him. When everything around him came back into focus, he could see that he must be in a hospital room, everything was so white. "Oh good! You're awake!" The man standing over him exclaimed, and clapped his hands together. "Excellent!" The man busied himself by checking the machines surrounding him, and Yugi noticed an I.V. sticking out of his arm. He shivered; he had never liked needles. He looked away from it, and stared at the door to his room, it was partially open, and nurses, doctors and patients all walked by every so often.
"You were pretty lucky, you know. We weren't sure if you were going to wake up or not, you did lose a lot of blood. By the way, what happened to you?" The man stopped looking at the machines around him, and fixed his gaze onto Yugi's face. Yugi stared at him with a blank expression on his face, his eyes nearly drained of all their innocence.
"I - I'd rather not talk about it." Yugi's voice quavered slightly as he spoke.
"Well, if you're sure. Does it have anything to do with that young man that brought you here?" The man glared as he spoke, as though he suspected the older one to have done something to him.
"Yami? Where is he? Can I see him?" Yugi sat up, and stared at the man.
"Is that his name? What an odd name. Well, he's just across the hall from here. Was he the one who did this to you?"
"No." Yugi frowned, and stared at the man with a cross expression on his face. "Why would you think such a thing? Yami saved me."
"Well, it's just that he brought you here, and when we took you from his grasp he said something about you being 'his' or something like that. It was really odd hearing that from him." The man shook his head, and sighed.
"Who are you?" Yugi asked slowly, trying to put their conversation behind his back.
"I'm your resident doctor, I've been put in charge of caring for you until you're well enough to go home." He said simply, smiled, and held out his hand. Yugi accepted it, and they shook hands. Yugi drew back his hand faster than the doctor, who just shrugged.
"Can I see Yami?" Yugi had almost said 'his' Yami, but the doctor seemed to not understand it at all, so he left that part out.
"I don't think you're well enough yet. Give yourself some time." He said calmly. "If he wakes up, I'll get him to pay you a little visit."
"But. But I'd liked to see him really soon!" Yugi managed to call out to the doctor, who was leaving the room and about to close the door.
"Just rest for now, kid, rest. You need it." The doctor pushed the door shut, and Yugi sighed, he didn't want to rest anymore, he was really restless.
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Yami was caught deep within himself, entangled in stray thoughts. They kept him from waking up, and forced him to stay in a deep sleep, but he was still aware of what went on around him, almost as if he was watching himself from a different position. He was almost thankful for being kept asleep by force, he was suddenly exhausted, and wondered why. That's when he remembered about Yugi and their encounters with a place of pure evil.
He felt a shudder run its course through his body, and he ended up waking up anyway. Everything around him really dark, and only a few lights from the hallway outside lit up the room. He was glad that no lights greeted his sore eyes, and he brought his hand up to his face. The room was somewhat humid, but a cool breeze passed over him every few minutes more or less. His body felt weak and his muscles were aching all over, causing him to wince in pain a few times as he tried to move. He stayed lying there on his back, and wondered how Yugi was doing. Probably worse than I'm doing, he thought to himself, sleepily. He heard the door to the room open, and light filled the entire room, someone had turned on the light. He shut his eyes tightly, trying not to notice how bright it had become.
"Hello?" A woman's voice filled the room, and Yami forced his eyes open just a little.
"Hello." He whispered in a hoarse voice, and noticed that a nurse was smiling down at him.
"You look very much like the other one you brought in." She said with amusement in her voice, and joy in her eyes as she noticed he was awake.
"Yes." Yami nodded uncomfortably, and hoped she wouldn't ask why, to his surprise, she didn't. She didn't even continue that conversation with him.
"Well I suppose you're bored and have nothing to do?" She asked anxiously, but Yami didn't respond, so she continued. "Well there's a lot of talk on the news about this institute owned by the Kaiba Corporation! Everyone's been talking about it. There's more on the television about it." She walked over to the television that hang from the ceiling of the room, and pressed a few buttons. She found the remote for it, and laid it down beside Yami's arm. The television turned on, and immediately there was video footage of an evil place, the Institute. Around the institute were dozens of police cars, and hundreds of people lying on the ground receiving medical attention.
"This video footage was captured by our cameraman, and everything you are seeing may be the biggest thing on television for a while. A call from an unknown person this afternoon led police to investigate this building you can see, and inside they found the largest building in the world used for testing on human beings, and literally torturing them to death. The death toll of the people so far is at one thousand, and only from when the police arrived there. There are more deaths suspected to have occurred in the past ten or twenty years. We have not been able to contact Mr. Kaiba yet, and there are rumours going around that he is in hiding, or on his way back from a business trip early because of this disaster." The news announcer spoke with wide eyes, and then the screen was filled with pictures of tortured and beaten people lying on the ground, people being arrested, and pictures of all angles of the building.
Yami looked down, and wondered why Kaiba would have something like that, he knew Kaiba was heartless and cold, but not enough to want to torture people. There was something that was just not right. He noticed that the nurse was holding a hand to her mouth, and muttering in disgust.
"Well, I'll - I'll leave you to. To whatever." She got up and left Yami with the television still blearing in the background. Seeing enough of it, he turned it off, and put the remote on the bedside table. Yami felt a dull head ache coming on, and he closed his eyes, slumped back into his pillows, and fell asleep.
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Back in Yugi's room, he was drumming his fingers on the side of the bed, and he was really frustrated. He didn't feel the pain in his body anymore, and he really wasn't tired, he was wide awake. Almost hyper, even. He didn't even want to think about pulling the I.V. out of his arm, the thought made him sick. But he couldn't call a nurse or doctor, because he wasn't hurt or sick or anything, so they would tell him to sleep. He sighed, and lay back in the bed, and thought of different ways of escape. None were much to his liking. He decided that concentrating on other things like his friends and school helped him forget a little bit, because he knew that his friends would worry about him not going to school or calling them.
There was a knock at the door, and he jumped slightly. He was unsure of who would knock on the door in the first place.
"C-Come in?" Yugi called out, and the door opened wide, and three people ran into the room. Tea, Tristan and Joey were smiling at him, obviously worried for him.
"Yugi! You're ok!" Tea shouted, overjoyed, and tears found their way to her eyes. She found herself hugging Yugi so hard that he was actually trying to pull away from her. When she let go, he smiled up at her, with his semi innocent violet eyes. She found it odd that his eyes seemed to have changed.
"Yeah, I am. But I think that's because of the pain killers they gave me." He spoke a little louder than he had before, and sat cross legged on the bed, Joey and Tea sitting at the edge of it, and Tristan stayed standing up.
"Why weren't you at school, pal?" Joey asked, clearly concerned.
"Well. I'd really rather not talk about it now, Joey, if you don't mind. I don't want to remember it right now." Yugi stoped smiling fro a split second, and went back to smiling. He noticed something out of the corner of his eye; it was the Millennium Puzzle. He picked it up, and slid it over his head. It hung down on his white hospital clothing, but he felt better with it on. He sighed, and turned back to Joey, Tea, and Tristan.
"Well, you have no homework today, so that must be a relief, huh?" Tristan laughed, and something in his eyes danced, Yugi took that as a sign that he was glad Yugi was alright.
"I guess so. But I really want to leave this hospital, I don't like it here much." He shivered, and looked down at his arm, the only thing keeping him from leaving was the I.V..
"I know what you mean, Yugi. Did you hear what happened on the news?" Tea suddenly changed the subject, seeing Yugi's comfort disappearing slowly.
"No, what happened?" Yugi raised his eyebrows, and wondered what she was talking about.
"Well someone called in to the police, they don't know who it was, but they informed the police about a huge building where others were torturing and testing on people like guinea pigs! It's so awful, how could anyone be so inhuman!" Tea shouted a little louder than she had hoped, and her face was full of anger.
"And they're saying that Kaiba Corporation is involved with it somehow!" Tristan suddenly brought his hand up in the air, and it curled up into a fist, and he was shaking slightly.
"What? No way!" Yugi gasped.
"We couldn't believe it either! I mean, Kaiba isn't that cold hearted!" Tristan dropped his arm to his side, and stared down at Yugi who was a bit paler than he had been before. "What's wrong, Yugi?" His friends turned and stared at him curiously. Yugi felt his hands trembling slightly.
"Nothing." Yugi hadn't noticed how good he had become at lying in the past while. He couldn't believe it, Kaiba would never have people treat others in such ways. Would he? Yugi frowned sadly down at the ground, and sighed, he could never be angry at Kaiba, even if he did run such a horrible place. But he knew that Kaiba would never own such a place to begin with. And for twenty years? Yugi couldn't believe it. He pulled his covers around him to stop shivering. Was Kaiba that cold?
"Well, ok then. I've got to go home, Serenity is at home alone, and I'm not supposed to leave her like that for too long." Joey slid off the bed, hoping that Yugi would stop dwelling on everything.
"Yeah, I have to leave now, too. I'm going to visit my grandparents tonight, and my parents told me not to be too late." Tristan spoke softly, deep in thought.
"Yeah, I have so much homework to do. Bye Yugi!" Tea smiled, and waved back to Yugi, as did the others, and they left Yugi to his haunting thoughts and horrifying visions from when he had been in the institute. He lay back down, and cried himself to sleep, but he felt more comfortable with his puzzle around his neck. As he drifted off to sleep, more casualties were brought to the hospital from the Institute, their injuries far worse than anyone could ever imagine. At least Yugi was sleeping again.
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Okay, well that's it fro this chapter, sorry! ^-^ Today was Garage Sale Day for my sub division, so I didn't have much time to work on the story. Sorry about that! Oh yeah, and I would've written more, but my evil father is yelling at me to get off the computer! -_-' *sniff* I don't like when they force me off the computer. Hmm, I'll make the next chapter better, don't worry! I hope this wasn't a cliff hangar or anything for you all, I know how hard they are to forget! ^-^ SO I guess I'm going to go to sleep now, so I'll write more later!
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Yami held Yugi tight in his arms; they were both frightened. They had almost been seen at least ten times, and Ohjioru (Their companion) had attacked and killed one of the people who he said had tortured him on his first few years in the Institute. Yugi was terribly frightened when he saw it with his own eyes, that he had buried his face into Yami's side. He could no longer cry, for what he had seen and been through brought him way past tears and crying.
"This way, I need to do something before we leave." Ohjirou (the old man) whispered slowly, and stared around the hall. "I've been down this way before. But I'll need your help to succeed."
"Alright. What do we have to do? Does it endanger Yugi's life in any way?" Yami glared at the man suddenly. Perhaps this man isn't trustworthy, he thought to himself, making sure that Yugi couldn't hear him.
"No, no, no. It endangers my life at most. But it will save hundreds or thousands of people, hopefully." He growled at Yami, and gave him an equally distrustful glare. "I don't trust you either. So we're even, can we get a move on now?" Yami sighed, and nodded, still glaring at the back of the man's head.
They crept silently behind Ohjirou, and made their way slowly to a small room. It was filled with screens that watched the halls of the building.
"If they have this, why haven't we been seen yet?" Yugi whispered, looking around with a paranoid look on his face.
"Because, they only check this place every ten or twenty minutes. And their tapes are ten minutes behind, so that they never miss anything." Ohjirou said with a matter of fact tone, and then said "They really are lazy," under his breath. He went to work by typing on various keyboards, and a program popped up on one of the screens. He smiled, and worked at cracking the password as quickly as possible. "Yes!" He exclaimed.
"What?" Yami looked down at the screen, and then to Yugi, who was shivering uncontrollably.
"They haven't changed the password form the last time I tried hacking their system." He laughed.
"What happened last time?" Yugi whispered weakly.
"I forgot that I have ten minutes from when I hack their database until they notice something's wrong." He smiled, and hit the 'enter' button, and let out a laugh. "Hurry, go straight down that hallway, and don't turn right or left until you get to the end of the hallway, there you can turn left, and there is a door at the end of that hall, it leads outside. Hurry, before the ten minutes are up. I've unlocked all of the cellar doors, and the lights were turned on. You've only got a few minutes before they notice!" He leaned back in the chair, and gripped the sides of it.
"What about you?" Yami raised an eyebrow at him.
"This is what I want, for everyone to escape, hopefully they all will. Then I'm going to destroy the building the only way I know how. There's a gas chamber, if I light a match there, well, I'll have everything I ever wanted." He smiled, and Yami stared at the crazy old man.
"No, you have to come, too! You couldn't possibly want to die!" Yugi let go of Yami's arm that he used to stay standing up straight, and he leaned his arms against the chair, and stared at Ohjirou. "Please?"
"No time." He whispered, and they heard shouts coming from somewhere nearby. "You had better hurry, not much time left, now. Go! Now!" Yami grabbed Yugi by his arm, and ran, dragging him down the hall to the exit, as fast as he could after running all night.
"Yugi, I can't pull you the whole way home!" Yami whispered between breaths.
"I - I know." Yugi whispered, and started to run as fast as his little legs would carry him (Sarah: Awwww! Kawaii! I could so see chibi Yugi right now being dragged by Yami! Anyway, back to the story!).
They stopped running when they found a small clearing in the forest, and Yugi dropped to his knees beside Yami, both were panting hard. Yugi held his face in his hands. He felt sick from what he had seen and heard while he was there. And the fact that the people would rather die than see another day of light was rather disturbing. He had seen one of them kill another human being, just like that. Yugi relived the moment, and was brought out of his trance when he felt a warm hand on his shoulder. Yugi closed his eyes for a moment, and a very worried Yami picked him up, and carried him for a little ways, Yugi's head resting on his shoulder, his eyes never closed for a second.
"Yugi?" Yami asked gently with worry filling his voice.
"Hai, Yami?" Yugi asked in a small voice, barely loud enough for Yami to hear.
"I was just making sure you were still awake." Yami whispered, and walked for what seemed like hours until they finally got back home. The sun had already moved up high into the centre of the sky, and was heating up the air rapidly. Yugi could feel the heat wrapping itself around him, but he still shivered.
Yami carried Yugi into their home, and made sure Yugi was lying comfortably on his side, on the couch, before he ran to the phone, and called to police. He called the police, and informed them of the situation in the institute, and they told him that they would send over some vehicles to investigate the situation immediately, and that later on one officer would pay Yami and Yugi a visit to question them. Yami simply said yes to everything, and hung up the phone at the end of their conversation, with an odd look spreading across his face.
"Yugi?" Yami peered down at Yugi, and waited until his eyes snapped open. "I'm going to take you to the hospital, alright? You don't look so well." Yami pushed the golden locks of hair out of Yugi's face, and Yugi nodded slowly, and closed his violet eyes again.
He picked up Yugi's small shivering body, and carried him all the way to the hospital with much effort. He, too, was physically exhausted. When he got to the hospital, he collapsed on the floor in front of the front desk, Yugi still wrapped in his arms.
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"Umm. Young sir?" A voice penetrated the darkness in which Yugi was floating. Yugi felt himself open his eyes, but he could barely see around him. When everything around him came back into focus, he could see that he must be in a hospital room, everything was so white. "Oh good! You're awake!" The man standing over him exclaimed, and clapped his hands together. "Excellent!" The man busied himself by checking the machines surrounding him, and Yugi noticed an I.V. sticking out of his arm. He shivered; he had never liked needles. He looked away from it, and stared at the door to his room, it was partially open, and nurses, doctors and patients all walked by every so often.
"You were pretty lucky, you know. We weren't sure if you were going to wake up or not, you did lose a lot of blood. By the way, what happened to you?" The man stopped looking at the machines around him, and fixed his gaze onto Yugi's face. Yugi stared at him with a blank expression on his face, his eyes nearly drained of all their innocence.
"I - I'd rather not talk about it." Yugi's voice quavered slightly as he spoke.
"Well, if you're sure. Does it have anything to do with that young man that brought you here?" The man glared as he spoke, as though he suspected the older one to have done something to him.
"Yami? Where is he? Can I see him?" Yugi sat up, and stared at the man.
"Is that his name? What an odd name. Well, he's just across the hall from here. Was he the one who did this to you?"
"No." Yugi frowned, and stared at the man with a cross expression on his face. "Why would you think such a thing? Yami saved me."
"Well, it's just that he brought you here, and when we took you from his grasp he said something about you being 'his' or something like that. It was really odd hearing that from him." The man shook his head, and sighed.
"Who are you?" Yugi asked slowly, trying to put their conversation behind his back.
"I'm your resident doctor, I've been put in charge of caring for you until you're well enough to go home." He said simply, smiled, and held out his hand. Yugi accepted it, and they shook hands. Yugi drew back his hand faster than the doctor, who just shrugged.
"Can I see Yami?" Yugi had almost said 'his' Yami, but the doctor seemed to not understand it at all, so he left that part out.
"I don't think you're well enough yet. Give yourself some time." He said calmly. "If he wakes up, I'll get him to pay you a little visit."
"But. But I'd liked to see him really soon!" Yugi managed to call out to the doctor, who was leaving the room and about to close the door.
"Just rest for now, kid, rest. You need it." The doctor pushed the door shut, and Yugi sighed, he didn't want to rest anymore, he was really restless.
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Yami was caught deep within himself, entangled in stray thoughts. They kept him from waking up, and forced him to stay in a deep sleep, but he was still aware of what went on around him, almost as if he was watching himself from a different position. He was almost thankful for being kept asleep by force, he was suddenly exhausted, and wondered why. That's when he remembered about Yugi and their encounters with a place of pure evil.
He felt a shudder run its course through his body, and he ended up waking up anyway. Everything around him really dark, and only a few lights from the hallway outside lit up the room. He was glad that no lights greeted his sore eyes, and he brought his hand up to his face. The room was somewhat humid, but a cool breeze passed over him every few minutes more or less. His body felt weak and his muscles were aching all over, causing him to wince in pain a few times as he tried to move. He stayed lying there on his back, and wondered how Yugi was doing. Probably worse than I'm doing, he thought to himself, sleepily. He heard the door to the room open, and light filled the entire room, someone had turned on the light. He shut his eyes tightly, trying not to notice how bright it had become.
"Hello?" A woman's voice filled the room, and Yami forced his eyes open just a little.
"Hello." He whispered in a hoarse voice, and noticed that a nurse was smiling down at him.
"You look very much like the other one you brought in." She said with amusement in her voice, and joy in her eyes as she noticed he was awake.
"Yes." Yami nodded uncomfortably, and hoped she wouldn't ask why, to his surprise, she didn't. She didn't even continue that conversation with him.
"Well I suppose you're bored and have nothing to do?" She asked anxiously, but Yami didn't respond, so she continued. "Well there's a lot of talk on the news about this institute owned by the Kaiba Corporation! Everyone's been talking about it. There's more on the television about it." She walked over to the television that hang from the ceiling of the room, and pressed a few buttons. She found the remote for it, and laid it down beside Yami's arm. The television turned on, and immediately there was video footage of an evil place, the Institute. Around the institute were dozens of police cars, and hundreds of people lying on the ground receiving medical attention.
"This video footage was captured by our cameraman, and everything you are seeing may be the biggest thing on television for a while. A call from an unknown person this afternoon led police to investigate this building you can see, and inside they found the largest building in the world used for testing on human beings, and literally torturing them to death. The death toll of the people so far is at one thousand, and only from when the police arrived there. There are more deaths suspected to have occurred in the past ten or twenty years. We have not been able to contact Mr. Kaiba yet, and there are rumours going around that he is in hiding, or on his way back from a business trip early because of this disaster." The news announcer spoke with wide eyes, and then the screen was filled with pictures of tortured and beaten people lying on the ground, people being arrested, and pictures of all angles of the building.
Yami looked down, and wondered why Kaiba would have something like that, he knew Kaiba was heartless and cold, but not enough to want to torture people. There was something that was just not right. He noticed that the nurse was holding a hand to her mouth, and muttering in disgust.
"Well, I'll - I'll leave you to. To whatever." She got up and left Yami with the television still blearing in the background. Seeing enough of it, he turned it off, and put the remote on the bedside table. Yami felt a dull head ache coming on, and he closed his eyes, slumped back into his pillows, and fell asleep.
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Back in Yugi's room, he was drumming his fingers on the side of the bed, and he was really frustrated. He didn't feel the pain in his body anymore, and he really wasn't tired, he was wide awake. Almost hyper, even. He didn't even want to think about pulling the I.V. out of his arm, the thought made him sick. But he couldn't call a nurse or doctor, because he wasn't hurt or sick or anything, so they would tell him to sleep. He sighed, and lay back in the bed, and thought of different ways of escape. None were much to his liking. He decided that concentrating on other things like his friends and school helped him forget a little bit, because he knew that his friends would worry about him not going to school or calling them.
There was a knock at the door, and he jumped slightly. He was unsure of who would knock on the door in the first place.
"C-Come in?" Yugi called out, and the door opened wide, and three people ran into the room. Tea, Tristan and Joey were smiling at him, obviously worried for him.
"Yugi! You're ok!" Tea shouted, overjoyed, and tears found their way to her eyes. She found herself hugging Yugi so hard that he was actually trying to pull away from her. When she let go, he smiled up at her, with his semi innocent violet eyes. She found it odd that his eyes seemed to have changed.
"Yeah, I am. But I think that's because of the pain killers they gave me." He spoke a little louder than he had before, and sat cross legged on the bed, Joey and Tea sitting at the edge of it, and Tristan stayed standing up.
"Why weren't you at school, pal?" Joey asked, clearly concerned.
"Well. I'd really rather not talk about it now, Joey, if you don't mind. I don't want to remember it right now." Yugi stoped smiling fro a split second, and went back to smiling. He noticed something out of the corner of his eye; it was the Millennium Puzzle. He picked it up, and slid it over his head. It hung down on his white hospital clothing, but he felt better with it on. He sighed, and turned back to Joey, Tea, and Tristan.
"Well, you have no homework today, so that must be a relief, huh?" Tristan laughed, and something in his eyes danced, Yugi took that as a sign that he was glad Yugi was alright.
"I guess so. But I really want to leave this hospital, I don't like it here much." He shivered, and looked down at his arm, the only thing keeping him from leaving was the I.V..
"I know what you mean, Yugi. Did you hear what happened on the news?" Tea suddenly changed the subject, seeing Yugi's comfort disappearing slowly.
"No, what happened?" Yugi raised his eyebrows, and wondered what she was talking about.
"Well someone called in to the police, they don't know who it was, but they informed the police about a huge building where others were torturing and testing on people like guinea pigs! It's so awful, how could anyone be so inhuman!" Tea shouted a little louder than she had hoped, and her face was full of anger.
"And they're saying that Kaiba Corporation is involved with it somehow!" Tristan suddenly brought his hand up in the air, and it curled up into a fist, and he was shaking slightly.
"What? No way!" Yugi gasped.
"We couldn't believe it either! I mean, Kaiba isn't that cold hearted!" Tristan dropped his arm to his side, and stared down at Yugi who was a bit paler than he had been before. "What's wrong, Yugi?" His friends turned and stared at him curiously. Yugi felt his hands trembling slightly.
"Nothing." Yugi hadn't noticed how good he had become at lying in the past while. He couldn't believe it, Kaiba would never have people treat others in such ways. Would he? Yugi frowned sadly down at the ground, and sighed, he could never be angry at Kaiba, even if he did run such a horrible place. But he knew that Kaiba would never own such a place to begin with. And for twenty years? Yugi couldn't believe it. He pulled his covers around him to stop shivering. Was Kaiba that cold?
"Well, ok then. I've got to go home, Serenity is at home alone, and I'm not supposed to leave her like that for too long." Joey slid off the bed, hoping that Yugi would stop dwelling on everything.
"Yeah, I have to leave now, too. I'm going to visit my grandparents tonight, and my parents told me not to be too late." Tristan spoke softly, deep in thought.
"Yeah, I have so much homework to do. Bye Yugi!" Tea smiled, and waved back to Yugi, as did the others, and they left Yugi to his haunting thoughts and horrifying visions from when he had been in the institute. He lay back down, and cried himself to sleep, but he felt more comfortable with his puzzle around his neck. As he drifted off to sleep, more casualties were brought to the hospital from the Institute, their injuries far worse than anyone could ever imagine. At least Yugi was sleeping again.
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Okay, well that's it fro this chapter, sorry! ^-^ Today was Garage Sale Day for my sub division, so I didn't have much time to work on the story. Sorry about that! Oh yeah, and I would've written more, but my evil father is yelling at me to get off the computer! -_-' *sniff* I don't like when they force me off the computer. Hmm, I'll make the next chapter better, don't worry! I hope this wasn't a cliff hangar or anything for you all, I know how hard they are to forget! ^-^ SO I guess I'm going to go to sleep now, so I'll write more later!
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