YUGIOH Kaiba: Missing Persons

Chapter 31. Krysonna now approached Yami and the machine, from across the room. Yami turned, pleased to see all his friends, and even Krysonna come out of this, relatively unscathed. The alarms were not triggered, giving them the time they needed. He looked at Krysonna, who looked back at him with daggers in her eyes, for some reason. He could assume the turmoil inside her was still great. "Kaiba.......are you all right?", Yami asked.

"I'm fine", Krysonna said, then suddenly decked Yami as hard as she could, dropping him on the ground. "Well.......now I am", she added, and turned her attention on the machine, as she rubbed her fist in satisfaction.

Yami rubbed his face, feeling physically and emotionally hurt from that blow, as he looked up, asking, "What was that for?"

"Why don't you ask your friend Joey? I'm sure he'd be more than willing to explain to you, as well as the rest of this building, why I did that. But then again, he's not the only one that doesn't know how to keep his mouth shut about things......is he?", she glared back down at him, her face flushed after rethinking about what Joey announced to the whole world.

Yami also blushed after realizing what must have happened. "Joey told you what I said to him.......", feeling terrible, and slightly embarrassed himself, over what must have been said for all to hear.

Actually, it's not your fault, spirit.......you shouldn't be taking the blame for this. You told me about it, and I was the one that told Joey. I never even considered this would come and hurt Kaiba. This is my fault......you don't deserve this punishment! Let me come out and take what's coming to me, Yugi cried out to Yami.

No......I wont let you get hurt, Yami said. This was all my fault from the very beginning......I'll take the blame, Yami said to him.

"No......he didn't tell me about it. He turned his voice into a loud speaker, and told everyone on this floor about it", Krysonna snapped, turning away from Yugi, and trying desperatly to focus back on the machine, though now failing miserably, getting more and more emotionally frustrated by the moment.

"I'm sorry, Kaiba. I was wrong to have said anything to him about it. Like yourself, he too was feeling an inner turmoil with facing the fact of who you were, after.......what happened between you two. He confided in me.......and I couldn't lie to my own best friend. So I told him, in hopes that he would not feel alone", Yami explained. "But you're right, I had no right to take such liberties......"

"Feeling alone??", Krysonna trembled. She turned back to face Yugi, her eyes filled with hate. With her voice dripping in sarcasm, she snapped, "I'm sorry, did your visit to my room that night leave you with emotional scars, Yugi? Did it bruise that little ego of yours to realize that the one you had a 'moment' with wasn't infact a woman, at all??"

In the distance, Tea gasped, seeing Krysonna punch Yugi, knocking him down. "Hey, she can't do that to Yugi!"

But Tristan stopped Tea, saying, "I don't know if we should interfere, Tea. After all, with what Joey said a moment ago about them two, I can only assume we should stay as clear away from this conversation as possible."

"Yeah, maybe this is some kind of argument between couples, or something......", Devlin said, equally afraid to get near it.

Joey just pouted, crossing his arms, saying, "Oh, sure.......showing more attention to my best friend, again! What a jerk!"

Serenity went over to Joey, saying, "Joey, as you said, Yugi 'is' your best friend, shouldn't you be defending him?"

"Defending him against what........a fight between a couple??", Joey snapped. "Besides, what do you expect me to do, hit Kaiba back? It's one thing when he was a guy, but I don't hit 'girls'......"

Tea then suddenly rolled up her sleeves, saying, "Well, I'm a girl.......and I do!", beginning to march over towards the two. She insisted to herself that she was doing this to defend Yugi......no, she was not going admit to herself that she was jealous over the fact that the first person Yami ever had a sexual and emotional night with ended up being with Seto Kaiba! 'I am not going to be jealous over a man, I am not going to go there. Of course he was a woman at the time. How could he end up looking prettier than I am, when he's not even supposed to be a she!!'

"Cat-fight", Tristan announced.

"Uh.......what do we do?", Devlin asked.

"I dunno.......", Tristan shrugged, "Find some popcorn??"