Chapter 12: Feelings Torn
The limo pulled up to Mokuba's school. Mokuba was in the office; his teachers also seemed to understand. Rebecca waited with him.
"What did they do Mokuba?" Kaiba asked.
"Seto..." Mokuba cried harder than he ever had.
"Come on Mokie, were gong home, Rebecca would you like to come?"
"Sure Kaiba." Rebecca replied, as she went ahead he found she was covered in chalk.
"Did kids throw chalk at you Rebecca?" Kaiba asked.
"No, they threw it at Mokuba, but...I took it instead." Rebecca sighed.
"Thank you..." Kaiba uttered. "Let's go home."
"Seto!" Mokuba wouldn't move.
Kaiba picked Mokuba up and carried him out to the limo, "we'll make things right, I promise!"
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Tea had stopped crying but cradled Yugi in her arms, rocking him back and forth. He hadn't stopped crying since they got to the mansion. Kaiba was comforting Mokuba, while Kari tried to comfort Serenity while Mrs. Wheeler was holding Joey in tight grips trying to calm him down.
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"Tea it's not fair! IT'S NOT FAIR! I DIDN'T ASK FOR THIS! NONE OF US DID!" Yugi sobbed.
"Ssssssshhhh...It will be ok someday I promise." Tea held the ice pack to Yugi's side. Yugi read the article just before school.
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"SETO! WHY? WHY?" Mokuba yelled.
"Mokie it will be ok, come on, let's go play a video game. Try not to think about it." Kaiba's own eyes shed a tear of pain. Kaiba pulled Mokuba in closer.
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Lily hid in her mother's arms. All she could do was cry and cry.
"Calm down honey. Those kids are cruel."
"You didn't hear what they said about Yugi!" Lily sobbed harder.
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Kari let Serenity cry into her shoulder all night. She fell asleep crying.
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"Joey stop punching the wall!"
"IT'S BAD ENOUGH THEY CALLED ME A DRUNK! BUT! YUGI! THEY HAD NO RIGHT! THEN SERENITY! IT WAS CRUEL!"
"Honey come here," Mrs. Wheeler pulled him into another hug. "Kids can be cruel. They certainly had no right to say that about Seto Kaiba, your sister or you. Get some sleep. You don't have to go to school tomorrow." Joey crawled into bed.
(A/N: The Wheelers and the Motous are now staying at Kaiba's. Hey it takes up room! HEY Even Tea is staying there!)
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The next day Tea came in to check in on Yugi. He was still asleep. He seemed a he had a little more colour than yesterday, but he still looked pale. He started to stir and woke up.
"Hey Yugi, how are you feeling?"
"Better..." Yugi sighed. He felt light-headed and fell asleep again. Tea pulled the drapes around the bed closed and walked to her own room. This place was like a sanctuary to her, Yugi, Joey and the others.
The phone rang and she picked it up. "Hello..." Tea seemed shocked. She hung up the phone. Yugi's grandpa came strolling into the room and ran over to his grandson.
"Yugi! HOW DARE THEY!" His grandpa took the nearest chair and examined Yugi over. He looked at the bandages on his face, the ankle and the side. The bruise was swelled up badly and Tea put the ice pack on Yugi's side.
"What is going on?" Mrs. Motou asked walking into the room.
"Grandpa's back!" Lily yelled and ran to give him a hug.
"Poor Yugi, I watched the news and read the paper. None of you deserve that." Solemon Motou looked down at his feet.
"Grandpa, I..." Yugi once again began to tear up but tore away from everyone. He pushed his face into the pillow and began sobbing again.
"Poor...Yugi..." Tea put an arm around him.
"They will pay!" Solemon yelled.
"Dad!" Mrs. Motou cried out and ran into her father's arms crying.
"It'll be ok honey..." Solemon rubbed her back.
"Mom is...crying!" Lily looked shocked.
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At school the next day even friends of the Yugi, Kaiba and Serenity were shunned. Yugi decided to be brave about it and go. Kaiba went along as well as Joey to keep an eye on Yugi. It turned out that they had a private teacher, so all of the gang went.
"Ok, students, we are going to do English. Pull out your books Romeo & Juliet and turn to page 14 were we left off."
"Yes sir," they all replied depressingly.
"Now..." they weren't even paying attention. Yugi glared out the window depressingly. He watched as the students playing dodge ball were using a stuffed manikin of him.
"HA HA! LOOK AT THE GREAT YUGI MOTOU!" One shouted. Another one looked out the window and saw Yugi staring at them.
"STARE AT SOME ONE YOU ROYAL PAIN IN THE A-" The teacher closed the window and curtains seeing how hurt Yugi looked.
"Would you like to move to another desk Mr. Motou?" Yugi simply nodded his head yes and was given a desk at the front not by any window. Tea shut her window and continued to look at the chalkboard.
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Lunch was extremely bad. When they walked into the caffeteria teachers escorted each of them to a table. When the teachers left to sit at their own table things became if possible worse.
"HEY MOTOU I HEARD YOUR GRANDPA'S IN TOWN! HE REALLY MUST BE ASHAMED OF YOU!" Yugi pushed his food aside.
"Com'n Yug, don't listen to them."
"WHEELER DADDY WANTS YOU HOME! I HEARD YOU DRANK ALL HIS BEER AND GOT DRUNK LAST NIGHT!"
Joey had had enough. His food spilled to the floor and a teacher stood up from her sitting position. It was Mrs. Chitsumi.
"HEY KID YOU WANNA COME TELL THAT TO MY FACE? OR HAVE YOU GOT THE GUTS?" Joey yelled back. A kid with dark blue hair stood up and walked over to Joey. He aimed a punch at Joey's face but Joey only blocked and threw the kid down on the ground. A menacing smile lurked upon Joey's lips as he said "You ever want to make fun of me, my sister, my best pal Yug, Tea, Kaiba, Kari any of them I will be sure to put you in the nurses office."
"Y-yes sir," the kid stumbled off back to his seat only to be dragged by the principal to the the office.
Yugi decided to leave first, Kaiba went along. As Yugi was passing a kid grabbed one of his crutches and almost kicked his ankle when Kaiba caught Yugi and stomped on the kids foot. The teen cried in agony. Kaiba knew full well that he broke teh kids foot. He enjoyed that. It was for everyone of the low down things the teens haad to said to his friends.
'My friends!' Kaiba thought. He now knew he wasm't alone in the world anymore. He had people who cared deeply about him.
"You ok Motou?" Kaiba aaked.
"Yeah..." Yugi sighed on the verge of tears.
"HEY YUGI MOTOU IS CRYING! LOSER!" Another a kid was dragged to the office.
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Yugi walked around the mansions huge gardens. Tea and the others thought it best to leave him be for a while. He seemed distant and scared of everyone. Any little sound he would flinch and imeadiatly go into a deffensive stance.
//Yugi please talk to me? You haven't said a word all day. //
/Yami, this is just all too much to take in! / Yugi leaned against the wall of shrubs.
//Yugi I do not fully understand what is going on, but as Pharoah I am sure I was always under the public eye, good or bad. The pressure must be emense on you, but remember I am always there. // Yami smiled at Yugi and wrapped a caring arm around him.
/Thanks, / Yugi still didn't have that happy look Yugi usualy had.
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Tea watched Yugi from the bedroom window. She knew he was taking this hard, and he was blaming himself most of the time.
'Yugi please don't beat yourself up, it's bad enough with Joey locking himself in his room,' Tea sighed. 'Even Kaiba is wallowing by staying in his office. Mokuba won't play, Serenity has become so insecure. Don't you get it Yugi, we pull our strength from you!' Tea had made up her mind. She ran out of the room.
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"Yugi!" Tea's voice carried through Yugi's head and fell out his other ear. "YUGI!" Tea pinned him against a bush.
"What is it?" Yugi asked in a dead voice.
"GET A GRIP! YOU ARE THE ONE PERSON I WOULDN'T EXPECT TO ACT LIKE THIS! I KNOW YOU! YOU'RE A FIGHTER! A FIGHTER! YOU BRING PEOPLE JOY! YOU HELP THEM LEARN TO LIVE!" Tea's voice didn't even touch Yugi. He just stood there, staring at her with a blank expression.
"TEA LEAVE ME ALONE! DON'T YOU THINK I GET THAT! DON'T YOU? EVERYDAY I TRY TO STAY STRONG! MARIK, EVERYONE THAT WAS AFTER THE PUZZLE, WHILE TRYING TO STAY STRONG! DO YOU EVEN KNOW HOW HARD THAT IS?" Yugi pulled away and slumped down to the ground with his head in his knees. "It's hard. It feels like I'm everyones leaning post and it gets to be too much sometimes."
"I'm sorry...I didn't know."
"Yeah, I'm sorry, it just...takes so much out of me," Yugi sighed.
"Let's go back to your room and put ice on that bruise." Tea smiled. Yugi smiled back. It had been a long while since Yugi had smiled, and here he was, smiling. Tea had tears of joy as she walked slowly behind Yugi.
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Seto tried everything to get Mokuba out of his room.
"Come on Mokie!" Seto yelled.
"I'm not coming out! No one wants us around!" Mokuba could be heard slamming a pillow against the wall. Kaiba pulled out a small peice of paper carefully placed in a hard case.
"Mokie take a look at this," Kaiba slipped the peice of paper under the door. A few minutes later it opened and there stood Mokuba.
"You kept it all this time?" Mokuba asked.
"Yes, why wouldn't I? As far as I'm concerened it's the most wonderful and most powerful card in the world." Kaiba replied with a small smile appearing on his lips.
"Seto!" Mokuba cried out and gave his brother a hug. Mokuba handed the peice of paper with the glass case on it back to Kaiba.
Kaiba inspected the card. A picture of BEWD was on it along with it's attack and defense. He shoved the card back into his coat and pulled Mokuba into a hug.
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Joey watched out the window seeing Tea trying to bring the old Yugi back. Even though a part of him was damaged, Joey could see a smile make its way on to Yugi's lips. He smiled.
"Joey your smiling!" Mrs. Wheeler cried out.
"Yeah guess I am! Hey I'm hungry, where's the food?" Joey asked.
"Our Joey has come back to us!"
"Hey big bro, glad your back to being yourself!" A cheerful Serenity came and gave her brother a huge hug.
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Dinner that night was peaceful.
"Everyone keep your hands and fingers away from Joey at all times," Tea said in a joking mannar as Joey scarfed down food. Yugi on the other hand wasn't touching his food.
"Yugi, is everything ok?" Mrs. Motou asked.
"Yeah," Yugi lied, he knew he did. He felt sick but he wasn't going to let that ruin everyone elses good cheer tonight. "I'm done dinner for tonight, I'm going to go take a walk in the garden." Yugi stood up, grabbed his crutches and walked out to the garden.
//Yugi I know you lied to them. You feel warm, // Yami looked at Yugi with concern.
/I feel...like...I'm...going to... / utter blackness took hold.
The limo pulled up to Mokuba's school. Mokuba was in the office; his teachers also seemed to understand. Rebecca waited with him.
"What did they do Mokuba?" Kaiba asked.
"Seto..." Mokuba cried harder than he ever had.
"Come on Mokie, were gong home, Rebecca would you like to come?"
"Sure Kaiba." Rebecca replied, as she went ahead he found she was covered in chalk.
"Did kids throw chalk at you Rebecca?" Kaiba asked.
"No, they threw it at Mokuba, but...I took it instead." Rebecca sighed.
"Thank you..." Kaiba uttered. "Let's go home."
"Seto!" Mokuba wouldn't move.
Kaiba picked Mokuba up and carried him out to the limo, "we'll make things right, I promise!"
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Tea had stopped crying but cradled Yugi in her arms, rocking him back and forth. He hadn't stopped crying since they got to the mansion. Kaiba was comforting Mokuba, while Kari tried to comfort Serenity while Mrs. Wheeler was holding Joey in tight grips trying to calm him down.
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"Tea it's not fair! IT'S NOT FAIR! I DIDN'T ASK FOR THIS! NONE OF US DID!" Yugi sobbed.
"Ssssssshhhh...It will be ok someday I promise." Tea held the ice pack to Yugi's side. Yugi read the article just before school.
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"SETO! WHY? WHY?" Mokuba yelled.
"Mokie it will be ok, come on, let's go play a video game. Try not to think about it." Kaiba's own eyes shed a tear of pain. Kaiba pulled Mokuba in closer.
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Lily hid in her mother's arms. All she could do was cry and cry.
"Calm down honey. Those kids are cruel."
"You didn't hear what they said about Yugi!" Lily sobbed harder.
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Kari let Serenity cry into her shoulder all night. She fell asleep crying.
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"Joey stop punching the wall!"
"IT'S BAD ENOUGH THEY CALLED ME A DRUNK! BUT! YUGI! THEY HAD NO RIGHT! THEN SERENITY! IT WAS CRUEL!"
"Honey come here," Mrs. Wheeler pulled him into another hug. "Kids can be cruel. They certainly had no right to say that about Seto Kaiba, your sister or you. Get some sleep. You don't have to go to school tomorrow." Joey crawled into bed.
(A/N: The Wheelers and the Motous are now staying at Kaiba's. Hey it takes up room! HEY Even Tea is staying there!)
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The next day Tea came in to check in on Yugi. He was still asleep. He seemed a he had a little more colour than yesterday, but he still looked pale. He started to stir and woke up.
"Hey Yugi, how are you feeling?"
"Better..." Yugi sighed. He felt light-headed and fell asleep again. Tea pulled the drapes around the bed closed and walked to her own room. This place was like a sanctuary to her, Yugi, Joey and the others.
The phone rang and she picked it up. "Hello..." Tea seemed shocked. She hung up the phone. Yugi's grandpa came strolling into the room and ran over to his grandson.
"Yugi! HOW DARE THEY!" His grandpa took the nearest chair and examined Yugi over. He looked at the bandages on his face, the ankle and the side. The bruise was swelled up badly and Tea put the ice pack on Yugi's side.
"What is going on?" Mrs. Motou asked walking into the room.
"Grandpa's back!" Lily yelled and ran to give him a hug.
"Poor Yugi, I watched the news and read the paper. None of you deserve that." Solemon Motou looked down at his feet.
"Grandpa, I..." Yugi once again began to tear up but tore away from everyone. He pushed his face into the pillow and began sobbing again.
"Poor...Yugi..." Tea put an arm around him.
"They will pay!" Solemon yelled.
"Dad!" Mrs. Motou cried out and ran into her father's arms crying.
"It'll be ok honey..." Solemon rubbed her back.
"Mom is...crying!" Lily looked shocked.
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At school the next day even friends of the Yugi, Kaiba and Serenity were shunned. Yugi decided to be brave about it and go. Kaiba went along as well as Joey to keep an eye on Yugi. It turned out that they had a private teacher, so all of the gang went.
"Ok, students, we are going to do English. Pull out your books Romeo & Juliet and turn to page 14 were we left off."
"Yes sir," they all replied depressingly.
"Now..." they weren't even paying attention. Yugi glared out the window depressingly. He watched as the students playing dodge ball were using a stuffed manikin of him.
"HA HA! LOOK AT THE GREAT YUGI MOTOU!" One shouted. Another one looked out the window and saw Yugi staring at them.
"STARE AT SOME ONE YOU ROYAL PAIN IN THE A-" The teacher closed the window and curtains seeing how hurt Yugi looked.
"Would you like to move to another desk Mr. Motou?" Yugi simply nodded his head yes and was given a desk at the front not by any window. Tea shut her window and continued to look at the chalkboard.
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Lunch was extremely bad. When they walked into the caffeteria teachers escorted each of them to a table. When the teachers left to sit at their own table things became if possible worse.
"HEY MOTOU I HEARD YOUR GRANDPA'S IN TOWN! HE REALLY MUST BE ASHAMED OF YOU!" Yugi pushed his food aside.
"Com'n Yug, don't listen to them."
"WHEELER DADDY WANTS YOU HOME! I HEARD YOU DRANK ALL HIS BEER AND GOT DRUNK LAST NIGHT!"
Joey had had enough. His food spilled to the floor and a teacher stood up from her sitting position. It was Mrs. Chitsumi.
"HEY KID YOU WANNA COME TELL THAT TO MY FACE? OR HAVE YOU GOT THE GUTS?" Joey yelled back. A kid with dark blue hair stood up and walked over to Joey. He aimed a punch at Joey's face but Joey only blocked and threw the kid down on the ground. A menacing smile lurked upon Joey's lips as he said "You ever want to make fun of me, my sister, my best pal Yug, Tea, Kaiba, Kari any of them I will be sure to put you in the nurses office."
"Y-yes sir," the kid stumbled off back to his seat only to be dragged by the principal to the the office.
Yugi decided to leave first, Kaiba went along. As Yugi was passing a kid grabbed one of his crutches and almost kicked his ankle when Kaiba caught Yugi and stomped on the kids foot. The teen cried in agony. Kaiba knew full well that he broke teh kids foot. He enjoyed that. It was for everyone of the low down things the teens haad to said to his friends.
'My friends!' Kaiba thought. He now knew he wasm't alone in the world anymore. He had people who cared deeply about him.
"You ok Motou?" Kaiba aaked.
"Yeah..." Yugi sighed on the verge of tears.
"HEY YUGI MOTOU IS CRYING! LOSER!" Another a kid was dragged to the office.
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Yugi walked around the mansions huge gardens. Tea and the others thought it best to leave him be for a while. He seemed distant and scared of everyone. Any little sound he would flinch and imeadiatly go into a deffensive stance.
//Yugi please talk to me? You haven't said a word all day. //
/Yami, this is just all too much to take in! / Yugi leaned against the wall of shrubs.
//Yugi I do not fully understand what is going on, but as Pharoah I am sure I was always under the public eye, good or bad. The pressure must be emense on you, but remember I am always there. // Yami smiled at Yugi and wrapped a caring arm around him.
/Thanks, / Yugi still didn't have that happy look Yugi usualy had.
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Tea watched Yugi from the bedroom window. She knew he was taking this hard, and he was blaming himself most of the time.
'Yugi please don't beat yourself up, it's bad enough with Joey locking himself in his room,' Tea sighed. 'Even Kaiba is wallowing by staying in his office. Mokuba won't play, Serenity has become so insecure. Don't you get it Yugi, we pull our strength from you!' Tea had made up her mind. She ran out of the room.
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"Yugi!" Tea's voice carried through Yugi's head and fell out his other ear. "YUGI!" Tea pinned him against a bush.
"What is it?" Yugi asked in a dead voice.
"GET A GRIP! YOU ARE THE ONE PERSON I WOULDN'T EXPECT TO ACT LIKE THIS! I KNOW YOU! YOU'RE A FIGHTER! A FIGHTER! YOU BRING PEOPLE JOY! YOU HELP THEM LEARN TO LIVE!" Tea's voice didn't even touch Yugi. He just stood there, staring at her with a blank expression.
"TEA LEAVE ME ALONE! DON'T YOU THINK I GET THAT! DON'T YOU? EVERYDAY I TRY TO STAY STRONG! MARIK, EVERYONE THAT WAS AFTER THE PUZZLE, WHILE TRYING TO STAY STRONG! DO YOU EVEN KNOW HOW HARD THAT IS?" Yugi pulled away and slumped down to the ground with his head in his knees. "It's hard. It feels like I'm everyones leaning post and it gets to be too much sometimes."
"I'm sorry...I didn't know."
"Yeah, I'm sorry, it just...takes so much out of me," Yugi sighed.
"Let's go back to your room and put ice on that bruise." Tea smiled. Yugi smiled back. It had been a long while since Yugi had smiled, and here he was, smiling. Tea had tears of joy as she walked slowly behind Yugi.
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Seto tried everything to get Mokuba out of his room.
"Come on Mokie!" Seto yelled.
"I'm not coming out! No one wants us around!" Mokuba could be heard slamming a pillow against the wall. Kaiba pulled out a small peice of paper carefully placed in a hard case.
"Mokie take a look at this," Kaiba slipped the peice of paper under the door. A few minutes later it opened and there stood Mokuba.
"You kept it all this time?" Mokuba asked.
"Yes, why wouldn't I? As far as I'm concerened it's the most wonderful and most powerful card in the world." Kaiba replied with a small smile appearing on his lips.
"Seto!" Mokuba cried out and gave his brother a hug. Mokuba handed the peice of paper with the glass case on it back to Kaiba.
Kaiba inspected the card. A picture of BEWD was on it along with it's attack and defense. He shoved the card back into his coat and pulled Mokuba into a hug.
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Joey watched out the window seeing Tea trying to bring the old Yugi back. Even though a part of him was damaged, Joey could see a smile make its way on to Yugi's lips. He smiled.
"Joey your smiling!" Mrs. Wheeler cried out.
"Yeah guess I am! Hey I'm hungry, where's the food?" Joey asked.
"Our Joey has come back to us!"
"Hey big bro, glad your back to being yourself!" A cheerful Serenity came and gave her brother a huge hug.
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Dinner that night was peaceful.
"Everyone keep your hands and fingers away from Joey at all times," Tea said in a joking mannar as Joey scarfed down food. Yugi on the other hand wasn't touching his food.
"Yugi, is everything ok?" Mrs. Motou asked.
"Yeah," Yugi lied, he knew he did. He felt sick but he wasn't going to let that ruin everyone elses good cheer tonight. "I'm done dinner for tonight, I'm going to go take a walk in the garden." Yugi stood up, grabbed his crutches and walked out to the garden.
//Yugi I know you lied to them. You feel warm, // Yami looked at Yugi with concern.
/I feel...like...I'm...going to... / utter blackness took hold.