Walk In The Rain
AN: I had this idea while listening to a song from Cowboy beep bop and got a great idea for a fic! I own nothing as you all should know by now XP and this song is by sum one Oo; yesh love my IQ love it ' lol any way back to the fic and less of me being a moron. SUM flashbacks are messy and erm not alll the same as said on the anime.. and also I made a few up ^^'
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Walk In The Rain
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I don't feel a thing
And I stopped remembering
The days are just like moments turned to hours
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I tall blonde man leaned against a wall outside a shady looking bar a pair of shades over his eyes as he puffed out smoke from his cigarette. His dirty blonde bangs hung limply over the shades and framed the sides of his face down to his chin. The back of his hair was down past his shoulders but seemed to be limp from lack of caring or tiding up.
The man wore dark jeans and a long black T-shirt covered by a tattered looking green jacket. On his feet were beat up sneakers that looked like they had seen better days, which they had. The tall man smirked to himself and watched the smoke twirl around in the tainted light of the street lamp.
Joey Wheeler once a young and full of life teenager had aged into a man of 28 bitter and twisted ripped of all innocence he had once had in his life leaned on the cold brick wall. He had seen so much in his young life and had changed so much no one would ever recognise him.
After what Marik had done to Mai he had lost all hope in everything, he had loved her that was true he wanted to spend the rest of his life by her side but that was never going to be possible thanks to Marik. After Battle City he had given his deck to Yugi and told him to always remember him.
With that said Joey Wheeler left his old life behind and moved to Chicago. Joey looked into the night sky and sighed he had given up feeling or remembering the past it only brought more hurt to him. Just then a guy came out the bar and turned to him.
"Oi Wheeler" The man called.
The man had short slick black hair and also wore shades, he was wearing a black suit and looked like he had just come out of a business meeting. He marched over to the blonde and leaned against the wall looking at the younger man.
"That's da name dun't wear it out" Joey smirked and pushed his glasses down his nose to peer over at the man.
"I hear yas got some cheap stuff.. If you know what I mean?"
"Ah yep you heard right" Joey stood up and put his hand in his jacket pocket.
"The good shit for only $100 can't go wrong ne?" He pulled out a small bag with what looked like to the untrained eye to be sugar.
"You're the cheapest I been to kid, here" The man handed Joey a handful of cash and took the small bag of whatever drug it was.
Joey counted his money before slipping it into his jeans pocket and watched the man go back into the bar with his new purchase. With both hands in his pocket he walked along the street with only the street lamps dim glow to keep him company. He stubbed out his cigarette on a near by wall before he crossed the road.
Joey had been dealing drugs over a week now he didn't care if the morons who took it died or not it was their fault for taking it. He himself sold it but would never take it, as much as he hated life he would never take the chance of taking any of those horrid substances.
He absently moved his wrist into the light and watched how the light made his scars turn a brownish colour. Not even suicide was his answer and that only succeeded in making him darker and colder. He smiled when he walked over to a small diner, and saw the welcoming glow of the neon sign that said 'TINA'S'
It was his regular hang out after he had managed to sell some of his 'goods' the owner was a good friend and often helped him out of situation when it came to the cops. The door swung open and made its normal yelp where it was in need of being fixed.
The room was dimly lit and the smell of smoke and perfumes mingled and attacked the nose of anyone who came into the diner. Joey had gotten used to it and now it smelt welcoming like he was meant to be here, like it was a home.
"Hey Joey!" Came a hyper female voice as he sat down at one of the stoles at the counter.
"Hey Teen" Joey nodded at the woman.
She was a very attractive woman considering her age was creeping up on her, she was now 45 and didn't look a day over 30. Her long black hair was tied into a messy bun and her healthy tan shown under the pink and blue neon lights of the bar signs above her. She kept her figure well but never flaunted it as she wore a simple dress each night.
"And how are you my duck?" She asked him and slid him a beer on the house.
"Ah same old same old and yourself mom?" He chuckled when she rolled her eyes.
"Sometimes I DO feel like I'm your mother my duckling since your always in here!" She sighed and smiled at the boy.
"You know you love me" He flashed her his famous grin and took his shades off and put them in his pocket.
"That's why I let you have beers on the house when I know you can pay me for well over 50" Tina giggled a little and went to serve another customer.
He smiled and watched her blush at some mans comments on how sexy she was and how young she looked. He felt someone sit by him and he frowned a little when he heard them address him by his full name.
"What?" Joey never turned around but he recognised that voice somewhere.
From a time when he was youthful and the world wasn't waying down on his shoulders, when only hanging out with friends and duelling were important in his life. A time when he was a teenager, when he was innocent and naïve.
"Just look at me you moron"
"Ya know I could blow five different hole in yas if I wanted ta-" He was cut off when he turned and saw a familiar person.
"KAIBA?" Joey said and almost fell off his chair.
"What in the hell are yas doing 'ere?" Joey blinked and looked at the teen.
It wasn't Seto Kaiba but Mokuba Kaiba. Joey wasn't sure what shocked him more, the fact that Mokuba was here in this god-forsaken state or how much he had grown. Mokuba had long black hair that was tied into a neat braid and his eyes looked troubled. The boy was pale and wore what looked like black eyeliner, he had bruises and cuts all up his pale arms. The boy wore a black hoody and baggy black jeans with a few silver chains hanging from them.
"Mokuba? Is that REALLY you?" Joey was still in shock.
"Yes" The boy sighed.
"I came here to find you, you HAVE to come home" Mokuba looked at him sadly.
"Why the fuck should I?" the blonde said and sipped at his beer.
"Things really went to hell when you left"
"Oh really?" He snorted.
"Why should I care?"
"JOEY! You left your friends there! Do you have any idea what happened?" The boy said outraged.
"They WERE my friends WERE"
"Joey stop being such a bastard and hear me out!" The black haired boy hissed.
"How old are you and your already cussin'?"
"I'm 18 thank you very much"
Joey looked at his drink not wanting to see the fiery gaze that Mokuba held in his once innocent and respectful eyes. All of what Mokuba had been was gone and that hurt Joey to see that the small boy he had often had small play fights with had turned out like this. The cuts up his arms were enough evidence that the once bouncy ten-year-old had grown up and grown messed up at that.
"Things changed so much" He said sadly.
"Tell me what happened ta everyone please?" Joey didn't know why he cared but he fooled himself by saying over and over 'I dun't give a fuck!'
"Anzu dropped out of dancing school and ended up being a hooker just to be with a man every night since her father raped her she needed to feel like she was worth something. And now she's pregnant and the babies due in December"
Joey said nothing and carried on drinking in silence.
"Ryou Bakura went insane and was submitted to an insane asylum a few years ago and no one knows if he's still alive or not but his father killed himself with a gun not long after due to everyone blaming him" Mokuba sighed a little and saw Joey was in thought.
"Bakura" Joey hissed out.
"Yeah he got the better of Ryou."
"What about the others?"
"My brother got depressed and work got to much for him, he jumped off the top of Kaiba corp and left everything to my new step father.." The word 'step father' was spat out and the teen tried not to cry.
"SETO KILLED HIMSELF? When?" Joey asked in pure shock now.
"Two years ago a little while after Ryou was deemed insane and sent to the nut house"
"And what about Tris? And Yug? And the others?" Joey asked now looking at the gothic boy sat in front of him.
"Yugi's dead. After you left he got depressed and started to ignore everything and one. Yami tried to snap him out of it but Yugi broke the puzzle and chucked it in the ocean, with no one to help him he took the wrong path and got into a gang, he played Russian rulet and his number came up"
"Shit" Joey hissed trying to keep his emotions in check as hard as it was.
"Tristan was put under arrest for man slaughter, he killed the person who made Yugi play that damned game, He's in the slammer for another 6 years"
"We never told you before cus no one could find you"
"I didn't want to be found that's why" Joey glared at Mokuba.
"And now you come and tell me all this shit in hopes of me coming home? Fuck that!"
"Wait! You haven't heard about a few of the others yet!"
"Maybe I don't care?" Joey stood up.
"Not even about Serenity? Or Duke?"
"Serenity.." Joey looked down sadly and sat down.
"Fine ya got me on dat"
"Duke married Serenity they were fairly happy for a few years till Serenity kept having miscarriage after miscarriage, Duke left her and moved somewhere no one knows where, and now your sister re married a violent and abusive man who beats her"
"WHO? I'll fucking blow holes in the bastard!"
"Joey calm down!" Mokuba put a hand on his shoulder.
"Last time I heard Ryuzaki and Haga were on the case"
"Waaaaaaait.. Ryuzaki and Haga?? The same morons me and Yug kicked asses of in both Battle City AND DK?" Joey blinked.
"Their undercover cops"
"Well that's flamin' great" Joey mumbled.
Mokuba sighed and shifted about on his seat a little and looked around the room at all the people giving him dirty looks for the way he dressed. He was a goth and that was frowned upon in places like this. The older man looked at the boy he had known for so long.
"Why did you come here to get me? It seems theres nothing left for me back home"
"Joey we need you back! Me, Serenity, Tristan and Anzu.. The ones that are still alive.. Even Ryou! You know that Ryou loved you didn't you?" Mokuba said turning back to face him, his eyes full of hope and need.
"He did?"
A nod
"I dun't know.. I'll have ta think about that.. Any way where are you stayin'?" Joey asked lighting another cigarette and taking a long drag of it.
"In a crappy fucking motel up town" The gothic teen said while admiring his black painted nails.
"Well lets get yer stuff and ya can come crash at mine. It's the least I can do since you have a shiter life then I do"
"Thanks Wheeler"
"One thing.. DUN'T call me 'Wheeler' ya sound too much like Seto when yas do an' I dun't fancy chattin' ta a dead guy ok?" Joey stood and waved to Tina.
"See yas duckling!"
"Oh ok.."
~~ More To Come ~~
Hope yas all liked it ^.^
AN: I had this idea while listening to a song from Cowboy beep bop and got a great idea for a fic! I own nothing as you all should know by now XP and this song is by sum one Oo; yesh love my IQ love it ' lol any way back to the fic and less of me being a moron. SUM flashbacks are messy and erm not alll the same as said on the anime.. and also I made a few up ^^'
^V^V^V^V^V^V^V^V^
Walk In The Rain
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
I don't feel a thing
And I stopped remembering
The days are just like moments turned to hours
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
I tall blonde man leaned against a wall outside a shady looking bar a pair of shades over his eyes as he puffed out smoke from his cigarette. His dirty blonde bangs hung limply over the shades and framed the sides of his face down to his chin. The back of his hair was down past his shoulders but seemed to be limp from lack of caring or tiding up.
The man wore dark jeans and a long black T-shirt covered by a tattered looking green jacket. On his feet were beat up sneakers that looked like they had seen better days, which they had. The tall man smirked to himself and watched the smoke twirl around in the tainted light of the street lamp.
Joey Wheeler once a young and full of life teenager had aged into a man of 28 bitter and twisted ripped of all innocence he had once had in his life leaned on the cold brick wall. He had seen so much in his young life and had changed so much no one would ever recognise him.
After what Marik had done to Mai he had lost all hope in everything, he had loved her that was true he wanted to spend the rest of his life by her side but that was never going to be possible thanks to Marik. After Battle City he had given his deck to Yugi and told him to always remember him.
With that said Joey Wheeler left his old life behind and moved to Chicago. Joey looked into the night sky and sighed he had given up feeling or remembering the past it only brought more hurt to him. Just then a guy came out the bar and turned to him.
"Oi Wheeler" The man called.
The man had short slick black hair and also wore shades, he was wearing a black suit and looked like he had just come out of a business meeting. He marched over to the blonde and leaned against the wall looking at the younger man.
"That's da name dun't wear it out" Joey smirked and pushed his glasses down his nose to peer over at the man.
"I hear yas got some cheap stuff.. If you know what I mean?"
"Ah yep you heard right" Joey stood up and put his hand in his jacket pocket.
"The good shit for only $100 can't go wrong ne?" He pulled out a small bag with what looked like to the untrained eye to be sugar.
"You're the cheapest I been to kid, here" The man handed Joey a handful of cash and took the small bag of whatever drug it was.
Joey counted his money before slipping it into his jeans pocket and watched the man go back into the bar with his new purchase. With both hands in his pocket he walked along the street with only the street lamps dim glow to keep him company. He stubbed out his cigarette on a near by wall before he crossed the road.
Joey had been dealing drugs over a week now he didn't care if the morons who took it died or not it was their fault for taking it. He himself sold it but would never take it, as much as he hated life he would never take the chance of taking any of those horrid substances.
He absently moved his wrist into the light and watched how the light made his scars turn a brownish colour. Not even suicide was his answer and that only succeeded in making him darker and colder. He smiled when he walked over to a small diner, and saw the welcoming glow of the neon sign that said 'TINA'S'
It was his regular hang out after he had managed to sell some of his 'goods' the owner was a good friend and often helped him out of situation when it came to the cops. The door swung open and made its normal yelp where it was in need of being fixed.
The room was dimly lit and the smell of smoke and perfumes mingled and attacked the nose of anyone who came into the diner. Joey had gotten used to it and now it smelt welcoming like he was meant to be here, like it was a home.
"Hey Joey!" Came a hyper female voice as he sat down at one of the stoles at the counter.
"Hey Teen" Joey nodded at the woman.
She was a very attractive woman considering her age was creeping up on her, she was now 45 and didn't look a day over 30. Her long black hair was tied into a messy bun and her healthy tan shown under the pink and blue neon lights of the bar signs above her. She kept her figure well but never flaunted it as she wore a simple dress each night.
"And how are you my duck?" She asked him and slid him a beer on the house.
"Ah same old same old and yourself mom?" He chuckled when she rolled her eyes.
"Sometimes I DO feel like I'm your mother my duckling since your always in here!" She sighed and smiled at the boy.
"You know you love me" He flashed her his famous grin and took his shades off and put them in his pocket.
"That's why I let you have beers on the house when I know you can pay me for well over 50" Tina giggled a little and went to serve another customer.
He smiled and watched her blush at some mans comments on how sexy she was and how young she looked. He felt someone sit by him and he frowned a little when he heard them address him by his full name.
"What?" Joey never turned around but he recognised that voice somewhere.
From a time when he was youthful and the world wasn't waying down on his shoulders, when only hanging out with friends and duelling were important in his life. A time when he was a teenager, when he was innocent and naïve.
"Just look at me you moron"
"Ya know I could blow five different hole in yas if I wanted ta-" He was cut off when he turned and saw a familiar person.
"KAIBA?" Joey said and almost fell off his chair.
"What in the hell are yas doing 'ere?" Joey blinked and looked at the teen.
It wasn't Seto Kaiba but Mokuba Kaiba. Joey wasn't sure what shocked him more, the fact that Mokuba was here in this god-forsaken state or how much he had grown. Mokuba had long black hair that was tied into a neat braid and his eyes looked troubled. The boy was pale and wore what looked like black eyeliner, he had bruises and cuts all up his pale arms. The boy wore a black hoody and baggy black jeans with a few silver chains hanging from them.
"Mokuba? Is that REALLY you?" Joey was still in shock.
"Yes" The boy sighed.
"I came here to find you, you HAVE to come home" Mokuba looked at him sadly.
"Why the fuck should I?" the blonde said and sipped at his beer.
"Things really went to hell when you left"
"Oh really?" He snorted.
"Why should I care?"
"JOEY! You left your friends there! Do you have any idea what happened?" The boy said outraged.
"They WERE my friends WERE"
"Joey stop being such a bastard and hear me out!" The black haired boy hissed.
"How old are you and your already cussin'?"
"I'm 18 thank you very much"
Joey looked at his drink not wanting to see the fiery gaze that Mokuba held in his once innocent and respectful eyes. All of what Mokuba had been was gone and that hurt Joey to see that the small boy he had often had small play fights with had turned out like this. The cuts up his arms were enough evidence that the once bouncy ten-year-old had grown up and grown messed up at that.
"Things changed so much" He said sadly.
"Tell me what happened ta everyone please?" Joey didn't know why he cared but he fooled himself by saying over and over 'I dun't give a fuck!'
"Anzu dropped out of dancing school and ended up being a hooker just to be with a man every night since her father raped her she needed to feel like she was worth something. And now she's pregnant and the babies due in December"
Joey said nothing and carried on drinking in silence.
"Ryou Bakura went insane and was submitted to an insane asylum a few years ago and no one knows if he's still alive or not but his father killed himself with a gun not long after due to everyone blaming him" Mokuba sighed a little and saw Joey was in thought.
"Bakura" Joey hissed out.
"Yeah he got the better of Ryou."
"What about the others?"
"My brother got depressed and work got to much for him, he jumped off the top of Kaiba corp and left everything to my new step father.." The word 'step father' was spat out and the teen tried not to cry.
"SETO KILLED HIMSELF? When?" Joey asked in pure shock now.
"Two years ago a little while after Ryou was deemed insane and sent to the nut house"
"And what about Tris? And Yug? And the others?" Joey asked now looking at the gothic boy sat in front of him.
"Yugi's dead. After you left he got depressed and started to ignore everything and one. Yami tried to snap him out of it but Yugi broke the puzzle and chucked it in the ocean, with no one to help him he took the wrong path and got into a gang, he played Russian rulet and his number came up"
"Shit" Joey hissed trying to keep his emotions in check as hard as it was.
"Tristan was put under arrest for man slaughter, he killed the person who made Yugi play that damned game, He's in the slammer for another 6 years"
"We never told you before cus no one could find you"
"I didn't want to be found that's why" Joey glared at Mokuba.
"And now you come and tell me all this shit in hopes of me coming home? Fuck that!"
"Wait! You haven't heard about a few of the others yet!"
"Maybe I don't care?" Joey stood up.
"Not even about Serenity? Or Duke?"
"Serenity.." Joey looked down sadly and sat down.
"Fine ya got me on dat"
"Duke married Serenity they were fairly happy for a few years till Serenity kept having miscarriage after miscarriage, Duke left her and moved somewhere no one knows where, and now your sister re married a violent and abusive man who beats her"
"WHO? I'll fucking blow holes in the bastard!"
"Joey calm down!" Mokuba put a hand on his shoulder.
"Last time I heard Ryuzaki and Haga were on the case"
"Waaaaaaait.. Ryuzaki and Haga?? The same morons me and Yug kicked asses of in both Battle City AND DK?" Joey blinked.
"Their undercover cops"
"Well that's flamin' great" Joey mumbled.
Mokuba sighed and shifted about on his seat a little and looked around the room at all the people giving him dirty looks for the way he dressed. He was a goth and that was frowned upon in places like this. The older man looked at the boy he had known for so long.
"Why did you come here to get me? It seems theres nothing left for me back home"
"Joey we need you back! Me, Serenity, Tristan and Anzu.. The ones that are still alive.. Even Ryou! You know that Ryou loved you didn't you?" Mokuba said turning back to face him, his eyes full of hope and need.
"He did?"
A nod
"I dun't know.. I'll have ta think about that.. Any way where are you stayin'?" Joey asked lighting another cigarette and taking a long drag of it.
"In a crappy fucking motel up town" The gothic teen said while admiring his black painted nails.
"Well lets get yer stuff and ya can come crash at mine. It's the least I can do since you have a shiter life then I do"
"Thanks Wheeler"
"One thing.. DUN'T call me 'Wheeler' ya sound too much like Seto when yas do an' I dun't fancy chattin' ta a dead guy ok?" Joey stood and waved to Tina.
"See yas duckling!"
"Oh ok.."
~~ More To Come ~~
Hope yas all liked it ^.^