Disclaimer: Once again I do not own Yugi or any of the characters.
I have to thank you all again for your reviews. You guys don't know how much they mean to me. I was afraid to post this story because I really didn't think it was that good. I never saw myself as much of a writer but your reviews have made me so happy and now I excited to finish this story.
I hope you like it. Thanks again everyone :-)
------- Yugi's past
==== Present (Joey and Yami)
'Thoughts'
/Yugi to Yami/
[Yami to Yugi]
Chapter 3
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The next morning was the same thing. An annoying alarm clock going off too early for Yugi's taste except this morning Yugi didn't hear it. He was sleeping on his right side so he never heard it go off.
"Yugi.." Yelled Solomon "Time to get up." When he received no reply he decided to go to Yugi's room to make sure everything was alright. He made his way upstairs to Yugi's room. When he opened the door he saw that Yugi was still asleep but he was on his right side facing the door. There were some mornings that Solomon had to wake Yugi up, so he was used to it. 'How on earth could my son purposely hurt his own child, I just don't get it.' Solomon thought. He walked over to the bed and smiled at his sleeping grandson then he gently shook Yugi so as not to startle him. That happened once and Yugi fell out of the bed. Solomon smiled at the memory. After a few minutes Yugi woke up, he rubbed the sleep from his amethyst eyes and looked up at his grandfather's smiling face.
"Morning Grandpa...what's wrong?" Yugi asked sleepily.
"Nothing is wrong Yugi. Its time to get up now and get ready for school." Solomon replied still smiling at his sleepy grandson. He left the room so that Yugi could get ready.
"Okay Grandpa. I'm up." Yugi said as he climbed out of bed and got ready for school.
A few minutes later Yugi was ready for school and went downstairs for breakfast.
"Good morning Grandpa" Yugi said when he saw his grandfather in the kitchen cooking breakfast.
Solomon turned around to the sound of his grandson's voice. "Good morning to you to Yugi..." Solomon said smiling.. "Are you hungry?" At Yugi's nod Solomon continued "Well sit down, breakfast is almost ready."
Yugi smiled back at his grandfather then sat down at the table. In a matter of minutes a plate of eggs, bacon and toast were set in front of him. Yugi looked up at his grandfather and smiled.
"Thanks a lot Grandpa, it looks great." Yugi said, then he happily started to eat the delicious breakfast. After he finished he said goodbye to his grandfather and then walked to school.
While heading to school, Yugi was once again in his own little world and not paying attention to anything around him. Luckily, he made it to school without any problems and he was thankful for that. He arrived early like he always does and took his usual seat in the back of the class. When the teacher arrived, he told the class that they would have a new seating arrangement, and told the class to stand by the wall till there name was called. Yugi did as he was told.
While he waited for the teacher to call his name he was deep in thought.
'Oh no, what if I get a seat in the middle? I chose this seat so I wouldn't have anyone on my left side. No one know I am deaf in one ear, not even my teacher. Why do I care? No one talks to me at this school anyway' Yugi finished his thought just as the teacher called his name. Yugi raised his head when he heard his name, he start to walk where Mr. Larson was pointing, but paused when he saw where he was sitting.
'No, please anywhere but there.' Yugi thought. My Larson wanted Yugi to sit between Joey and Tristan. Yugi shakily walked over to his new desk. When he sat down he tried to ignore the looks that Joey and Tristan were giving him. Yugi tried to pay attention to the teacher but he was nervous about the new seating arrangements. Joey and Tristan were giving each other looks and privately coming up with something to do to poor Yugi. After a nod from Tristan, Joey put the plan into action.
With a quick glance to make sure Mr. Larson was not watching them, he leaned over to Yugi and whispered in his ear "Aww, is the little loser gonna cry about where he is sitting?" Joey asked mockingly "No point in sitting by the window anyway loser, All you will see is others having fun while little loner here has no one." Joey sat looking at Yugi wondering why he didn't respond, or show that he even heard Joey.
Joey gave Tristan a questioning look. Tristan then leaned over and whispered in Yugi's ear.
"Yo, loser, you think you can just ignore us?" Tristan asked "Maybe after class we will show you we don't like to be ignored."
Yugi turned towards Tristan "S-S-Sorry, d-d-d-did you w-w-want to t-t-t- talk t-t-to me?" Yugi whispered. Yugi was confused. 'What did he mean by that? When did I ignore them and why are they talking to me in the first place?' Yugi quit his daydreaming when he noticed the teacher looking at him. He didn't want to get in trouble so Yugi tried to forget about Joey and Tristan and started listening to Mr. Larson and taking notes.
Joey and Tristan were confused by Yugi's actions. Both of them kept staring at him. 'Man this kid is weird. He flat out ignores me, but answers Tristan. I don't get it.' Joey thought. 'Oh, well. We will get him at lunch.'
Finally the bell rang and it was time for lunch. Yugi got up from his seat and headed to his locker for his lunch. He kept his head down and tried to stay as close to the wall as possible to avoid getting trampled by the other students. He made his way to the lunch room and sat down at his usual table. It was in the back of the lunchroom. He always sat by the wall so no one could sit on the other side of him. Yugi was uncomfortable being in between two people, in fact, Yugi felt uncomfortable around people in general. All they did was make fun of him or beat him up. He was quite surprised when Joey and Tristan stopped at his table and sat down. Yugi put down his lunch down and waited for them to talk.
"Yo shrimp.." Joey said. "..follow us, we want to show you something."
"W-W-What do y-y-y-you guys w-w-w-want." Yugi stuttered.
"Just follow us and find out." Tristan answered.
Yugi reluctantly got up against his better judgement and followed the two outside. They walked to the school yard then went to the side of the building. Yugi was getting nervous. 'What are they planning? Why did I follow them?' Yugi was driven from his thoughts when a punch hit him hard in the stomach. Yugi dropped to the ground holding his stomach. He tearfully looked up at the two, but quickly covered his face as Tristan picked him up and Joey punched him again. Yugi cried out again.
"W-w-w-why a-a-a-are you d-d-d-d-d-doing this?" Yugi quietly asked.
"This is what you get for ignoring us" Joey yelled. They dropped Yugi to the ground and he curled up into a ball. Then Joey and Tristan started to kick poor Yugi.
"P-p-p-please s-s-s-s-stop." Yugi cried. He cried out again when a kick hit his ribs and he heard a crack. Tears were flowing out of his eyes as he begged for them to stop.
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Yami glared at Joey while he was telling the story. Joey noticed and stopped walking.
"I know Yami, I feel terrible for the way we treated him." Joey hung his head in shame. "I am not proud of what we did, but Yugi forgave us even though that doesn't help with my guilt."
"I know Joey, Yugi will forgive anyone, even if they are the ones who hurt him." Yami said "Please continue."
"Alright, but I am not sure if I really can. We were so mean Yugi, I still can't believe he is now my best friend." Joey stated. "Anyway..."
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Finally after awhile, Joey and Tristan got tired of beating Yugi and just left him there on the grass. They both walked away and headed back to the lunchroom.
When Yugi noticed that he was not getting kicked anymore he looked up and saw that they were gone. He painfully picked himself up and limped back to the school and then to the bathroom to clean himself up. When he walked into the bathroom he was surprised to see himself in the mirror. His face was all black and blue and there was blood everywhere. Yugi started the painful process of cleaning himself up. He finished just as the bell was ringing signaling that lunch was over.
'Oh well, I wasn't really hungry anyway' Yugi thought. He opened the bathroom door and did a quick check to make sure Joey and Tristan were not around waiting for him.
He was still confused by what they meant by Yugi was ignoring them. 'When did I ignore them? Tristan was the only one who said anything to me.' Thought Yugi.
Then he gathered his stuff and walked to his next class. He was thankful his next class was study hall. That way he could finish his homework then he could work on the puzzle some more.
Yugi walked down the hall and into his classroom. He stopped in his tracks when he saw Joey and Tristan sitting there staring at him. Yugi gulped and walked by them. He sat in his usual seat in the back of the classroom by the window. He took out his homework and got started.
Joey gave Tristan a questioning look both thinking the same thing. 'Why didn't he turn us in?'
When Yugi finished his homework he took out his most prized possession. He was concentration so hard on it that he didn't notice Joey walking up to him until he saw a shadow on his desk. Yugi fearfully looked up and paled when he saw who it was.
"Y-y-yes" Yugi asked timidly.
"What is that?" Joey questioned, pointing to the puzzle.
"M-m-my p-p-p-puzzle." Yugi answered quietly.
"Puzzle huh? What a waste of time if you ask me." Joey picked up a piece and examined it. It was a large gold piece with an eye on it. "C-c-c-can I please h-h-h-have that b-b-b-back?" Yugi asked quietly.
"Nope, I don't think so.." Joey said "...Say bye-bye to your puzzle piece, little loser." With that said. Joey walked to the open window and threw the piece out, watching it land in the water below. Yugi jumped up from his seat and watched sadly as the last piece of his precious puzzle sank to the bottom of the canal. Yugi hung his head and said sadly "Y-y-y-you d-didn't have t-to do t-t-that you know.." Yugi whispered "..I-I n-never did a- anything to y-you.." Yugi's voice rose "..s-s-so why c-c-can't e-everyone just l-leave me a-alone?" And with that said Yugi ran out of the room, tears running down his face.
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Joey had to stop there. He could feel tears threatening to spill over his own eyes as he had to relive the way he used to treat Yugi before they became friends.
Yami was speechless. He had no idea of what life was like for his poor light before he was released. He started to feel horable for the way he has been treating Yugi lately. Actually, he can't remember the last time they spoke or rather he spoke to Yugi. Yami tried to think hard. 'I don't think I have spoke to my light since I got fed up with him constantly asking if I would leave him.' Suddenly, Yami decided to see how Yugi was doing. He tried the link but quickly found out he couldn't sense where Yugi was.
[Yugi] Yami waited for a reply.
[Yugi if you can hear me please answer me] Still nothing
He started to panic.
"Joey.." Yami said "..Did Yugi mention to you where he was going today? Or was he going straight home?"
Joey looked up at Yami and thought for a second. "No, not that I remember anyway. Actually, I have been kind of busy lately and haven't really had a chance to talk to him for a couple of days. Why?"
"Because.." Yami replied "..I can't sense where he is and he's not answering me, I have to find him, now!" And with that said, Yami took off running down the street.
"Hold on Yami, I am right behind ya." Joey yelled running after Yami.
I have to thank you all again for your reviews. You guys don't know how much they mean to me. I was afraid to post this story because I really didn't think it was that good. I never saw myself as much of a writer but your reviews have made me so happy and now I excited to finish this story.
I hope you like it. Thanks again everyone :-)
------- Yugi's past
==== Present (Joey and Yami)
'Thoughts'
/Yugi to Yami/
[Yami to Yugi]
Chapter 3
------------------------------------
The next morning was the same thing. An annoying alarm clock going off too early for Yugi's taste except this morning Yugi didn't hear it. He was sleeping on his right side so he never heard it go off.
"Yugi.." Yelled Solomon "Time to get up." When he received no reply he decided to go to Yugi's room to make sure everything was alright. He made his way upstairs to Yugi's room. When he opened the door he saw that Yugi was still asleep but he was on his right side facing the door. There were some mornings that Solomon had to wake Yugi up, so he was used to it. 'How on earth could my son purposely hurt his own child, I just don't get it.' Solomon thought. He walked over to the bed and smiled at his sleeping grandson then he gently shook Yugi so as not to startle him. That happened once and Yugi fell out of the bed. Solomon smiled at the memory. After a few minutes Yugi woke up, he rubbed the sleep from his amethyst eyes and looked up at his grandfather's smiling face.
"Morning Grandpa...what's wrong?" Yugi asked sleepily.
"Nothing is wrong Yugi. Its time to get up now and get ready for school." Solomon replied still smiling at his sleepy grandson. He left the room so that Yugi could get ready.
"Okay Grandpa. I'm up." Yugi said as he climbed out of bed and got ready for school.
A few minutes later Yugi was ready for school and went downstairs for breakfast.
"Good morning Grandpa" Yugi said when he saw his grandfather in the kitchen cooking breakfast.
Solomon turned around to the sound of his grandson's voice. "Good morning to you to Yugi..." Solomon said smiling.. "Are you hungry?" At Yugi's nod Solomon continued "Well sit down, breakfast is almost ready."
Yugi smiled back at his grandfather then sat down at the table. In a matter of minutes a plate of eggs, bacon and toast were set in front of him. Yugi looked up at his grandfather and smiled.
"Thanks a lot Grandpa, it looks great." Yugi said, then he happily started to eat the delicious breakfast. After he finished he said goodbye to his grandfather and then walked to school.
While heading to school, Yugi was once again in his own little world and not paying attention to anything around him. Luckily, he made it to school without any problems and he was thankful for that. He arrived early like he always does and took his usual seat in the back of the class. When the teacher arrived, he told the class that they would have a new seating arrangement, and told the class to stand by the wall till there name was called. Yugi did as he was told.
While he waited for the teacher to call his name he was deep in thought.
'Oh no, what if I get a seat in the middle? I chose this seat so I wouldn't have anyone on my left side. No one know I am deaf in one ear, not even my teacher. Why do I care? No one talks to me at this school anyway' Yugi finished his thought just as the teacher called his name. Yugi raised his head when he heard his name, he start to walk where Mr. Larson was pointing, but paused when he saw where he was sitting.
'No, please anywhere but there.' Yugi thought. My Larson wanted Yugi to sit between Joey and Tristan. Yugi shakily walked over to his new desk. When he sat down he tried to ignore the looks that Joey and Tristan were giving him. Yugi tried to pay attention to the teacher but he was nervous about the new seating arrangements. Joey and Tristan were giving each other looks and privately coming up with something to do to poor Yugi. After a nod from Tristan, Joey put the plan into action.
With a quick glance to make sure Mr. Larson was not watching them, he leaned over to Yugi and whispered in his ear "Aww, is the little loser gonna cry about where he is sitting?" Joey asked mockingly "No point in sitting by the window anyway loser, All you will see is others having fun while little loner here has no one." Joey sat looking at Yugi wondering why he didn't respond, or show that he even heard Joey.
Joey gave Tristan a questioning look. Tristan then leaned over and whispered in Yugi's ear.
"Yo, loser, you think you can just ignore us?" Tristan asked "Maybe after class we will show you we don't like to be ignored."
Yugi turned towards Tristan "S-S-Sorry, d-d-d-did you w-w-want to t-t-t- talk t-t-to me?" Yugi whispered. Yugi was confused. 'What did he mean by that? When did I ignore them and why are they talking to me in the first place?' Yugi quit his daydreaming when he noticed the teacher looking at him. He didn't want to get in trouble so Yugi tried to forget about Joey and Tristan and started listening to Mr. Larson and taking notes.
Joey and Tristan were confused by Yugi's actions. Both of them kept staring at him. 'Man this kid is weird. He flat out ignores me, but answers Tristan. I don't get it.' Joey thought. 'Oh, well. We will get him at lunch.'
Finally the bell rang and it was time for lunch. Yugi got up from his seat and headed to his locker for his lunch. He kept his head down and tried to stay as close to the wall as possible to avoid getting trampled by the other students. He made his way to the lunch room and sat down at his usual table. It was in the back of the lunchroom. He always sat by the wall so no one could sit on the other side of him. Yugi was uncomfortable being in between two people, in fact, Yugi felt uncomfortable around people in general. All they did was make fun of him or beat him up. He was quite surprised when Joey and Tristan stopped at his table and sat down. Yugi put down his lunch down and waited for them to talk.
"Yo shrimp.." Joey said. "..follow us, we want to show you something."
"W-W-What do y-y-y-you guys w-w-w-want." Yugi stuttered.
"Just follow us and find out." Tristan answered.
Yugi reluctantly got up against his better judgement and followed the two outside. They walked to the school yard then went to the side of the building. Yugi was getting nervous. 'What are they planning? Why did I follow them?' Yugi was driven from his thoughts when a punch hit him hard in the stomach. Yugi dropped to the ground holding his stomach. He tearfully looked up at the two, but quickly covered his face as Tristan picked him up and Joey punched him again. Yugi cried out again.
"W-w-w-why a-a-a-are you d-d-d-d-d-doing this?" Yugi quietly asked.
"This is what you get for ignoring us" Joey yelled. They dropped Yugi to the ground and he curled up into a ball. Then Joey and Tristan started to kick poor Yugi.
"P-p-p-please s-s-s-s-stop." Yugi cried. He cried out again when a kick hit his ribs and he heard a crack. Tears were flowing out of his eyes as he begged for them to stop.
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Yami glared at Joey while he was telling the story. Joey noticed and stopped walking.
"I know Yami, I feel terrible for the way we treated him." Joey hung his head in shame. "I am not proud of what we did, but Yugi forgave us even though that doesn't help with my guilt."
"I know Joey, Yugi will forgive anyone, even if they are the ones who hurt him." Yami said "Please continue."
"Alright, but I am not sure if I really can. We were so mean Yugi, I still can't believe he is now my best friend." Joey stated. "Anyway..."
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Finally after awhile, Joey and Tristan got tired of beating Yugi and just left him there on the grass. They both walked away and headed back to the lunchroom.
When Yugi noticed that he was not getting kicked anymore he looked up and saw that they were gone. He painfully picked himself up and limped back to the school and then to the bathroom to clean himself up. When he walked into the bathroom he was surprised to see himself in the mirror. His face was all black and blue and there was blood everywhere. Yugi started the painful process of cleaning himself up. He finished just as the bell was ringing signaling that lunch was over.
'Oh well, I wasn't really hungry anyway' Yugi thought. He opened the bathroom door and did a quick check to make sure Joey and Tristan were not around waiting for him.
He was still confused by what they meant by Yugi was ignoring them. 'When did I ignore them? Tristan was the only one who said anything to me.' Thought Yugi.
Then he gathered his stuff and walked to his next class. He was thankful his next class was study hall. That way he could finish his homework then he could work on the puzzle some more.
Yugi walked down the hall and into his classroom. He stopped in his tracks when he saw Joey and Tristan sitting there staring at him. Yugi gulped and walked by them. He sat in his usual seat in the back of the classroom by the window. He took out his homework and got started.
Joey gave Tristan a questioning look both thinking the same thing. 'Why didn't he turn us in?'
When Yugi finished his homework he took out his most prized possession. He was concentration so hard on it that he didn't notice Joey walking up to him until he saw a shadow on his desk. Yugi fearfully looked up and paled when he saw who it was.
"Y-y-yes" Yugi asked timidly.
"What is that?" Joey questioned, pointing to the puzzle.
"M-m-my p-p-p-puzzle." Yugi answered quietly.
"Puzzle huh? What a waste of time if you ask me." Joey picked up a piece and examined it. It was a large gold piece with an eye on it. "C-c-c-can I please h-h-h-have that b-b-b-back?" Yugi asked quietly.
"Nope, I don't think so.." Joey said "...Say bye-bye to your puzzle piece, little loser." With that said. Joey walked to the open window and threw the piece out, watching it land in the water below. Yugi jumped up from his seat and watched sadly as the last piece of his precious puzzle sank to the bottom of the canal. Yugi hung his head and said sadly "Y-y-y-you d-didn't have t-to do t-t-that you know.." Yugi whispered "..I-I n-never did a- anything to y-you.." Yugi's voice rose "..s-s-so why c-c-can't e-everyone just l-leave me a-alone?" And with that said Yugi ran out of the room, tears running down his face.
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Joey had to stop there. He could feel tears threatening to spill over his own eyes as he had to relive the way he used to treat Yugi before they became friends.
Yami was speechless. He had no idea of what life was like for his poor light before he was released. He started to feel horable for the way he has been treating Yugi lately. Actually, he can't remember the last time they spoke or rather he spoke to Yugi. Yami tried to think hard. 'I don't think I have spoke to my light since I got fed up with him constantly asking if I would leave him.' Suddenly, Yami decided to see how Yugi was doing. He tried the link but quickly found out he couldn't sense where Yugi was.
[Yugi] Yami waited for a reply.
[Yugi if you can hear me please answer me] Still nothing
He started to panic.
"Joey.." Yami said "..Did Yugi mention to you where he was going today? Or was he going straight home?"
Joey looked up at Yami and thought for a second. "No, not that I remember anyway. Actually, I have been kind of busy lately and haven't really had a chance to talk to him for a couple of days. Why?"
"Because.." Yami replied "..I can't sense where he is and he's not answering me, I have to find him, now!" And with that said, Yami took off running down the street.
"Hold on Yami, I am right behind ya." Joey yelled running after Yami.