Chapter 7
Grandpa walked around the infirmary room, straightening up and anything else to keep busy. Yugi had not moved at all on his own yet. And the doctors said he seemed brain dead physically, but nothing was wrong on the examinations they gave him, so that a diagnosis was impossible right now. Solomon was worried that his grandson would never wake up.
The door burst open and Tea ran in the room and straight to Yugi's hospital bed. She put her hand on his and looked up at Solomon. "I take it he hasn't woken up yet.." Grandpa shook his head. "Not even for a second?!" Again, Solomon shook his head and looked down at the floor. He walked over to the window and looked outside at the clouds. "Tristan and Joey are coming too, they all wanted to take baths too since we had stayed her all night and were planning to stay all today too."
"Yeah... I just packed some stuff and brung it here. I'm not planning on leaving any time soon. The game shop isn't important right now. And since I'm a parental relative I'm allowed to take showers here and the hospital even has a laundromat in the basement. Pretty convenient..."
Tea sighed and nodded. She felt bad for Mr. Motou. His only grandchild was in the hospital and there was no other family to share his pain with. Tea heard the door and turned to see Bakura walk in. "Bakura!"
"Hi, Tea. I'm sorry I wasn't here earlier. There were some small errands I had to do. I got here as quickly as possible. Has he opened his eyes at all yet?" Tea shook her head. "Hm.. That is very disappointing. Id hate to miss it, but it would have been comforting for him to have woken up wether I was here or not."
Tea nodded and looked down at Yugi then back up at 'Bakura.' "His puzzle..."
"Oh, yes.. That's why I came here, Tea." He walked over to Solomon who hadn't even turned around to see Bakura and was still staring without expression at the clouds and sky outside. "Mr. Motou," Yami Bakura said in his gentlest voice, "I know you gave him this puzzle when he was young, but I feel attached to it, like having Yugi right here with me. I hope its not too much to ask, but do you think I could hold onto it for him until he comes to?"
Mr. Motou turned around and looked at Bakura. He picked up the puzzle, while it was still around Bakura's neck, and held it for a second. "I guess it would be alright. I wouldn't want to take it away if it means that much to you, especially right now..."
"Thank you Mr. Motou. It's comforting to have a part of Yugi with me. This means lot to me..."
Solomon nodded and they all turned to see Joey and Tristan enter the room. They all welcomed each other warmly and Joey squandered no time getting right to the specifics. Tea explained that he had not shown any movement yet, but that she knew that Yugi would pull through.
"Bakura, it stopped raining about an hour ago, and the humidity is so thick. Why on earth are you wearing a jacket?" Solomon looked at Bakura questioningly
"Well I guess I just get cold so easily... I haven't had an appetite lately. I need to get my energy up. I am a bit skinny."
Everyone in the room chuckled... except Yugi. This was a major downer for them all. Not being able to share their laughter with the one person who kept them all in good spirits, making sure that everyone got along and doing whatever he could to help anyone...
Bakura walked up to Yugi and held his hand for a second. Then told everyone he had to go home and left.
Tea wondered what was going on with Bakura. They had all planned the night before to stay with Yugi as much as possible until he recovered from his unknown illness. 'How can he leave his friend hanging? I hope he has a good excuse for coming so late, and leaving so quickly at that.'
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Bakura woke up the next morning with his clothes on from the day before, and his hair a tangled mess. 'I'm so tired...' Bakura's mind was fully functional, but his body didn't seem to want to obey orders. He thought about reaching out for the alarm clock, which was going to ring in less than a minute, but his arm refused to budge. It was sore. He heard the door creak, but was too tired to look around.
"Breakfast is ready. Since it's the weekend I was hoping we could spend some time together. I have the day off and today we're going to do some things together for a change. I also would like you to meet someone... a friend of mine." Bakura's father heard a low grumble from under the sheets as the alarm sounded its repetitious ringing. He saw a hand emerge and turn it off, then the same hand slid quietly back underneath the sheets. "Ryou? Are you ok?"
"I... I don't feel well..." Ryou heard faint whispering through the blue cotton and nylon bed cloth and slowly pulled away the covers.
"Hi, Ryou. I've heard so much about you! I'm sorry that our first encounter is in your time of illness. But lucky you, I'm a nurse!"
Bakura stared up at the unfamiliar shapely figure in his doorway. Her shortly cropped black hair curled delicately around her face, and her long slender legs seemed even longer from Bakura's point of view. "How ironic that when I am sick a nurse just pops up out of nowhere..."
"And fortunate. Meelah has a masters degree in the medical field.." His father said with a smile. "Your voice sounds horrible too. It must be a cold or something."
"That's exactly right. Its just a cold. A few hours of rest by the fireplace should have me in working condition again. There's no need for any assistance."
"Oh, Jonathan, he's so sweet." She squeezed his hand and smiled. "Its no problem, Ryou. I want to help you. Making people feel better is what makes me feel good also."
"That's right, son. I've got some fun things planned for us all to do together today. I want you two to get to know each other."
There was an odd silence in the room as Bakura stared at them both emotionlessly, and then silently submerged himself in cotton again. "I can't believe you would bring a woman into my room who is obviously a girlfriend I had no knowledge of until this very moment. I don't desire to spend time with either of you any time soon, so leave me alone!" Bakura clenched his fists in anger and swore at the top of his lungs.
Then the door slammed... he thought that his father would ever slam a door on purpose, and especially not so hard on mistake.
The door creaked open again but Bakura didn't look out. He'd have rather not seen the expression on his fathers face to make him so angry. Jonathan peered behind the door and in front of it again. Then he looked at Meelah. She shook her head silently and Jonathan closed the door again.
Bakura lay there for quite some time, overrun by fear and anger, his brain felt like a rotting peach shriveling around a pit of indecisiveness. Tears welled up in his eyes... 'Why can't I control myself anymore?'
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The phone rang and Bakura fumbled around in the dark looking for the receiver.. "H... Hello?"
"Bakura? I'm so glad you finally answered! Yugi showed some movement about 30 minutes ago. We were talking and Joey mentioned his name. He immediately moved his fingers and made a sort of grumbling sound. Its not very much but its great compared to his previous condition. Get down here right now!" And a click.
" . . ."
Bakura rose quietly and looked at his clock. It was past 7:30 and the moon wasn't quite out, but the bugs were up to their usual chatter, buzzing and chirping a tribute to the darkness, making him nostalgic. He quickly got a whiff of himself and realized that he had not taken a shower in over 24 hours. "Better get cleaned up. I'll have to take the 8:15 to downtown Domino or I won't be able to make it tonight."
Bakura pulled his dresser drawer out and slid his clothes around, looking for something remotely decent to wear, without having to iron it. There was nothing in the top drawer but his striped blue shirt, which had an odd reddish brown colored stain in the left sleeve. "That's odd. I wonder if this shirt has even been washed..." He closed that drawer and hastily opened the next in line, sliding more garments around until he felt something hard. He pulled out the Millennium puzzle. "What on earth am I doing with this still? And where's my ring?" He didn't have time to figure it out. It was 7:45. "I'll just have to take this to him tonight..."
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Tristan and Joey were arm wrestling and Tea was busy keeping grandpa occupied by allowing him to teach her how to play spider solitaire. Her phone rang. The ominous melody interrupted their silent session.
"Hello?"
"Hello, Tea. I just called to let you know I'm on the bus headed to the hospital. It's the strangest thing, but I seem to have held on to Yugi's puzzle unknowingly. I meant to return it yesterday, but it was in my bureau. I'll bring it to-..."
"Hello? Bakura? Are you ok? Hello?" Tea hung up the phone and turned around. "Grandpa Motou, Bakura just called me saying he had Yugi's puzzle and that he wanted to return it. He was saying something else but he got cut off."
"He wants to return the puzzle tonight? I thought that he wanted to hold on to it until Yugi was better. Or at least that's what he told me yesterday." Solomon sighed. "I suppose he changed his mind. "
"So he kept it on purpose? He said that he thought he returned it."
"How strange."
"Not for Bakura..."
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Grandpa walked around the infirmary room, straightening up and anything else to keep busy. Yugi had not moved at all on his own yet. And the doctors said he seemed brain dead physically, but nothing was wrong on the examinations they gave him, so that a diagnosis was impossible right now. Solomon was worried that his grandson would never wake up.
The door burst open and Tea ran in the room and straight to Yugi's hospital bed. She put her hand on his and looked up at Solomon. "I take it he hasn't woken up yet.." Grandpa shook his head. "Not even for a second?!" Again, Solomon shook his head and looked down at the floor. He walked over to the window and looked outside at the clouds. "Tristan and Joey are coming too, they all wanted to take baths too since we had stayed her all night and were planning to stay all today too."
"Yeah... I just packed some stuff and brung it here. I'm not planning on leaving any time soon. The game shop isn't important right now. And since I'm a parental relative I'm allowed to take showers here and the hospital even has a laundromat in the basement. Pretty convenient..."
Tea sighed and nodded. She felt bad for Mr. Motou. His only grandchild was in the hospital and there was no other family to share his pain with. Tea heard the door and turned to see Bakura walk in. "Bakura!"
"Hi, Tea. I'm sorry I wasn't here earlier. There were some small errands I had to do. I got here as quickly as possible. Has he opened his eyes at all yet?" Tea shook her head. "Hm.. That is very disappointing. Id hate to miss it, but it would have been comforting for him to have woken up wether I was here or not."
Tea nodded and looked down at Yugi then back up at 'Bakura.' "His puzzle..."
"Oh, yes.. That's why I came here, Tea." He walked over to Solomon who hadn't even turned around to see Bakura and was still staring without expression at the clouds and sky outside. "Mr. Motou," Yami Bakura said in his gentlest voice, "I know you gave him this puzzle when he was young, but I feel attached to it, like having Yugi right here with me. I hope its not too much to ask, but do you think I could hold onto it for him until he comes to?"
Mr. Motou turned around and looked at Bakura. He picked up the puzzle, while it was still around Bakura's neck, and held it for a second. "I guess it would be alright. I wouldn't want to take it away if it means that much to you, especially right now..."
"Thank you Mr. Motou. It's comforting to have a part of Yugi with me. This means lot to me..."
Solomon nodded and they all turned to see Joey and Tristan enter the room. They all welcomed each other warmly and Joey squandered no time getting right to the specifics. Tea explained that he had not shown any movement yet, but that she knew that Yugi would pull through.
"Bakura, it stopped raining about an hour ago, and the humidity is so thick. Why on earth are you wearing a jacket?" Solomon looked at Bakura questioningly
"Well I guess I just get cold so easily... I haven't had an appetite lately. I need to get my energy up. I am a bit skinny."
Everyone in the room chuckled... except Yugi. This was a major downer for them all. Not being able to share their laughter with the one person who kept them all in good spirits, making sure that everyone got along and doing whatever he could to help anyone...
Bakura walked up to Yugi and held his hand for a second. Then told everyone he had to go home and left.
Tea wondered what was going on with Bakura. They had all planned the night before to stay with Yugi as much as possible until he recovered from his unknown illness. 'How can he leave his friend hanging? I hope he has a good excuse for coming so late, and leaving so quickly at that.'
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Bakura woke up the next morning with his clothes on from the day before, and his hair a tangled mess. 'I'm so tired...' Bakura's mind was fully functional, but his body didn't seem to want to obey orders. He thought about reaching out for the alarm clock, which was going to ring in less than a minute, but his arm refused to budge. It was sore. He heard the door creak, but was too tired to look around.
"Breakfast is ready. Since it's the weekend I was hoping we could spend some time together. I have the day off and today we're going to do some things together for a change. I also would like you to meet someone... a friend of mine." Bakura's father heard a low grumble from under the sheets as the alarm sounded its repetitious ringing. He saw a hand emerge and turn it off, then the same hand slid quietly back underneath the sheets. "Ryou? Are you ok?"
"I... I don't feel well..." Ryou heard faint whispering through the blue cotton and nylon bed cloth and slowly pulled away the covers.
"Hi, Ryou. I've heard so much about you! I'm sorry that our first encounter is in your time of illness. But lucky you, I'm a nurse!"
Bakura stared up at the unfamiliar shapely figure in his doorway. Her shortly cropped black hair curled delicately around her face, and her long slender legs seemed even longer from Bakura's point of view. "How ironic that when I am sick a nurse just pops up out of nowhere..."
"And fortunate. Meelah has a masters degree in the medical field.." His father said with a smile. "Your voice sounds horrible too. It must be a cold or something."
"That's exactly right. Its just a cold. A few hours of rest by the fireplace should have me in working condition again. There's no need for any assistance."
"Oh, Jonathan, he's so sweet." She squeezed his hand and smiled. "Its no problem, Ryou. I want to help you. Making people feel better is what makes me feel good also."
"That's right, son. I've got some fun things planned for us all to do together today. I want you two to get to know each other."
There was an odd silence in the room as Bakura stared at them both emotionlessly, and then silently submerged himself in cotton again. "I can't believe you would bring a woman into my room who is obviously a girlfriend I had no knowledge of until this very moment. I don't desire to spend time with either of you any time soon, so leave me alone!" Bakura clenched his fists in anger and swore at the top of his lungs.
Then the door slammed... he thought that his father would ever slam a door on purpose, and especially not so hard on mistake.
The door creaked open again but Bakura didn't look out. He'd have rather not seen the expression on his fathers face to make him so angry. Jonathan peered behind the door and in front of it again. Then he looked at Meelah. She shook her head silently and Jonathan closed the door again.
Bakura lay there for quite some time, overrun by fear and anger, his brain felt like a rotting peach shriveling around a pit of indecisiveness. Tears welled up in his eyes... 'Why can't I control myself anymore?'
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The phone rang and Bakura fumbled around in the dark looking for the receiver.. "H... Hello?"
"Bakura? I'm so glad you finally answered! Yugi showed some movement about 30 minutes ago. We were talking and Joey mentioned his name. He immediately moved his fingers and made a sort of grumbling sound. Its not very much but its great compared to his previous condition. Get down here right now!" And a click.
" . . ."
Bakura rose quietly and looked at his clock. It was past 7:30 and the moon wasn't quite out, but the bugs were up to their usual chatter, buzzing and chirping a tribute to the darkness, making him nostalgic. He quickly got a whiff of himself and realized that he had not taken a shower in over 24 hours. "Better get cleaned up. I'll have to take the 8:15 to downtown Domino or I won't be able to make it tonight."
Bakura pulled his dresser drawer out and slid his clothes around, looking for something remotely decent to wear, without having to iron it. There was nothing in the top drawer but his striped blue shirt, which had an odd reddish brown colored stain in the left sleeve. "That's odd. I wonder if this shirt has even been washed..." He closed that drawer and hastily opened the next in line, sliding more garments around until he felt something hard. He pulled out the Millennium puzzle. "What on earth am I doing with this still? And where's my ring?" He didn't have time to figure it out. It was 7:45. "I'll just have to take this to him tonight..."
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Tristan and Joey were arm wrestling and Tea was busy keeping grandpa occupied by allowing him to teach her how to play spider solitaire. Her phone rang. The ominous melody interrupted their silent session.
"Hello?"
"Hello, Tea. I just called to let you know I'm on the bus headed to the hospital. It's the strangest thing, but I seem to have held on to Yugi's puzzle unknowingly. I meant to return it yesterday, but it was in my bureau. I'll bring it to-..."
"Hello? Bakura? Are you ok? Hello?" Tea hung up the phone and turned around. "Grandpa Motou, Bakura just called me saying he had Yugi's puzzle and that he wanted to return it. He was saying something else but he got cut off."
"He wants to return the puzzle tonight? I thought that he wanted to hold on to it until Yugi was better. Or at least that's what he told me yesterday." Solomon sighed. "I suppose he changed his mind. "
"So he kept it on purpose? He said that he thought he returned it."
"How strange."
"Not for Bakura..."
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