Disclaimer: I own Yu-Gi-Oh and all of its characters. NOT! Why would I be writing fanfiction if I did. Now Nurse Yaori is my own creation so :P! Uses some of the parts out of the song 'Whiskey Lullaby' Sang by Brad Paisley and Allison Crause.

Pairing: Yugi/Yami

Warning: Yaoi in this fanfiction! You have been warned also, abuse and a lot of it.

For: All those who have read chapters one and two, THANKS!

A/N: A big flashyback chapter telling of all the times Yugi had been beaten up to the final point that had hospitalized him. Non italics between the --- is Yugi in current times.

Fragile: Part 3

"Well that is kind of confusing to me as well. My father is an alcoholic and alcoholics have this thing to hit people and abuse them over the slightest mistakes..." Yugi began with his story.

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"The day my mother died, he started to drink heavily, causing him to loose the part of his heart that cared about me and tried to wash away the memory of mother's death." Yugi spoke.

"YUGI!" His father yelled at him, "WHY ARE YOU HOME SO LATE?" He continued as his breath blew strongly in Yugi's face. Whiskey hung in it.

"I have soccer after school. Don't you remember?" Yugi asked as his father lifted him up by his collar. His large hand used so much force, tears were put into Yugi's shirt.

"Well you are going to have to give it up because someone needs to do some house work." His father snarled and threw me down to the floor. Yugi lay there limp and almost lifeless for two days before he made any attempt to help and when he tried to help me he beat him again with one of his spiked chokers.

"As soon as I got my strength back, I went and stayed with my grandfather for a couple of weeks and that's when I got the Millennium puzzle."

"Yugi," Ji-chan spoke, "Where did all these marks come from?"

"Soccer." Yugi replied calmly, trying to cover up for his abusive father, knowing that when he went home, he would get the hell beat out of him if he told Ji-chan.

"These don't look like something you could get from a simple week of soccer practice." Ji-chan observed the small holes in Yugi's back where the collar had hit him. "Yugi, what is going on?"

"Nothing is going on." He began to panic.

"There is something going on and I need to know so I can help." Yugi's grandfather insisted.

"I told you, they are from soccer practice. The bigger players like to beat me up and use me as a soccer ball." Yugi lied as his grandfather lapped it up.

"Alright..." Ji-chan then went back behind the counter of his shop, climbed onto a small stool so he could reach the top shelf behind him, and grabbed a small golden box. "This is the Millennium Puzzle. Many have tried to solve it, but none have been successful. It is said to grant you your deepest desire. I want you to have it Yugi." He gave Yugi the box.

 "The rest of that week went by fast and I returned to my home with you and your puzzle."

"You're back Yugi so you know what you must do." Yugi's father greeted him at the door with and evil grin upon his face and led him to the kitchen to the most fowl looking pile of dishes the Yugi'd ever seen.

"It took me the whole night to get through all of those dishes and I smelled bad for days! In another two weeks the abuse got worse until it finally got to the point where I was put here."

"Give me the damn puzzle!" He hollered at Yugi.

"NO! You aren't going to hock it for beer!" Yugi rushed into his room and locked the door, knowing that his father was going to break it down within minutes. He balled up in the corner with a blanket covering him up. He snapped in the last piece of the Millennium puzzle and held it tightly in his hands as he ran and hid in the closet before the door fell down.

"You useless little brat! WHERE ARE YA!" Yugi peered out of his closet as his father made it over there. Evil laughter filled the air as he blind-folded Yugi and began to wriggle as he was lifted by his collar and hung on a metal hook. After Yugi was hung, large thumps were heard as the metal of a large chain hit his legs and back. The abuse stopped at the sound of police sirens and his father got up and out of the front door before the police could catch him.

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"My hikari, I am so sorry I couldn't help you." Tears rushed down the Egyptian's face.

"You have no reason to be sorry my Yami." Yugi felt Yami's flesh that was so soft. Even though it was a temporary three-hour thing, it was nice to feel his flesh as he waited for the nurses to bring him lunch. Mainly Yaori because she was one of his best friends now and he knew he could trust her as did Yami.

-Tbc