YUGIOH

Amnesia

Chapter 2.

Yugi and his friends all felt terrible, as the ambulance driver lifted Kaiba into it, and drove him away to the hospital. Yugi went up to one of the teachers, asking, "Is he going to be okay?"

"They said he has a concussion.......but I'm sure he'll be back to school in no time." The teacher said softly. But then her expression turned cold, saying, "I want everyone who was playing baseball on the school grounds after school to come over here, right now!" They all did, regretting to hear what was coming to them. "Since none of you can handle stopping your games and fooling around when other people are leaving the school, you will all be losing your recess for the rest of the school year. You will instead be reporting to detention, until school's over. That is all......"

"Oh man, this sucks!" Joey said, after she left. "We didn't mean to do that........it was an accident."

"I think that's what she's trying to prevent happen in the future, Joey." Duke smiled, approaching them.

"And where were you? You were supposed to be on our team!" Joey said.

"Good thing I wasn't. I heard what happened. I hope you didn't do that on purpose, Joey." Duke said.

"No, I didn't do it on purpose! Why does everyone keep saying that??" Joey ranted.

"Hey guys, why don't we forget about detention for now, gather the others up, and go visit him. Maybe we can get him a get well card or something, too." Yugi suggested.

Duke knew Kaiba would just be in a bad mood, and inched away, saying, "Sorry, no can do. I got a lot of homework, I'll seeya......"

"You know Yug, that may not be a good idea. He's gonna be mad at me! I don't wanna see him like that!" Joey said.

"You especially should be seeing him Joey, to prove to him you didn't mean it." Yugi said.

Joey put his head down, and nodded, "All right, Yug......"

Yugi managed to gather together Joey, and Tea. Tristan was equally leery of meeting Kaiba in the hospital, and quickly realized he had to re-organize his sock drawer. So together, the three of them headed to a store to get a 'get well' card. Yugi had the three of them sign it, then find every other one of their friends they could to sign, as well. Afterwards, the three of them went straight to the hospital.

At the hospital, they found his room, and was heading over there to visit.

"You know Joey, I can't believe you did that to Kaiba. He might be a jerk, but he certainly doesn't deserve that. What were you thinking?" Tea asked.

"Argh! How many times do I have to say, I didn't mean......." Joey was saying, but everyone shut up, as they entered, seeing Mokuba sitting there, looking miserable next to his brother, who's head had been bandaged up.

Mokuba looked over, saying, "Oh, hi guys." Trying not to sound sad.

"Hi, Mokuba.......how's your brother doing?" Yugi asked.

"He didn't wake up, yet. The doctors said he's got a concussion." Mokuba replied. "They told me he was hit on both sides of his head. I guess someone hit him with a ball, and then when he fell, his head hit the pavement. Who would have done something like that?"

"Uh.......Mokuba........it was an accident, I swear it!" Joey said, hands up.

"'You' did this to Seto??" Mokuba snapped at him, with an anger they never saw before in his eyes, a few tears escaped him. "You just wait till my big brother's back up! He'll have your body in a cast, when he gets back to school!!"

"Mokuba, Joey is really sorry. He honestly didn't mean it." Yugi said to him.

"Yugi's right. Joey came here to show Kaiba he was sorry." Tea said.

"Don't try and lie....I know the truth! You came here because you're afraid of what my big brother's gonna do to ya, when he gets back to school! That's why you're-" Mokuba was arguing back, but everyone suddenly shut up from another voice.

"Wh-who's making all that noise?" came the weak voice of Kaiba. They all turned to see he had brought both his hands up to clutch his head, obviously getting a larger headache from the racket they were making.

Mokuba immediately went back to his brother, saying, "Seto.......you're okay!"

He put his hands down, and looked over, saying with that same weak voice, "Who are you?"

The kids smile faded to shock and horror as he asked that question. "I......I'm your brother. Don't you know that, Seto?" Tears began to stream down his eyes, from the question.

Seto forced his hand over to Mokuba's shoulder, saying, "Hey kid, don't cry. I'll be okay......" Though he had no clue what happened. All he knew was he was in a hospital with a strange big-haired kid, crying and calling him brother. "Then.....I guess you're my brother......" He looked over at the others, saying, "So, who are they?"

Yugi approached, saying, "We're your friends, Kaiba. Here.......we got you this get-well card." As Yugi did that, Mokuba backed away still crying, and Tea came over to comfort the young Kaiba, and offer her support.

He looked at the card, which had the usual get-well message, written to Kaiba and signed by all three of them, as well as some others. "Thanks." He said. "One thing, though. That kid over there called me Seto, so why are you calling me Kaiba?"

"Well, that's your name.......Seto Kaiba." Yugi said. "Do you remember anything, Kaiba?"

Kaiba thought about that, "Well.......I know this is a hospital......." He paused longer, before shaking his head, "No, I can't remember anything else......"

Joey then moved over to him, saying, "Listen Kaiba, I got something to say. This.......this is my fault. We were playing baseball. And I hit the ball, and it hit you. You're in here cuzza me. I.......I'm really sorry about that."

Kaiba looked over and smiled a very strange carefree smile, that no one ever saw on Kaiba's face before. He said, "Hey.......don't worry about. It was an accident, right? Accidents happen. So which one are you on this card, and who do the other names belong to?"

Joey had to pick his mouth off the floor from the way Kaiba responded to him, before saying, "Huh? Oh, uh.......well I'm Joey, Yugi wrote his name there, and obviously this one's Tea." Joey chuckled, feeling strange talking to Kaiba like.......well, like he was one of the guys or something.

Infact, Mokuba was now mumbling quietly that maybe they should call a nurse, very worried about how unusually casual Kaiba was acting. He didn't even scowl once, yet.

Kaiba's eyes began to close then, as Joey asked, "Hey Kaiba......you feeling okay?"

"Yeah, just tired. Everything feels kinda.......fuzzy......" He mumbled.

Just then, the nurse them came in, saying, "I'm sorry, but I'll have to ask everyone who's not family-related to leave."

"Say miss, he said he was feeling strange. Will he be okay?" Yugi asked.

"That's from his medicine. He's on some painkillers, due to his concussion." She turned to him, saying, "Mr. Kaiba.......how many fingers am I holding up?"

"Three", he croaked out. "I'm thirsty......"

"Don't worry, you'll be getting some liquids very soon." She said, pulling out the blood-pressure band, to check his blood pressure. She then turned to the others, saying, "He'll be fine, now you'll have to leave."

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Mokuba remained with Kaiba, as the others left, still not sure what to think about how he was acting. As they walked out, Yugi was first to speak up, saying, "Did we all see what I think we saw in there?"

"You mean Kaiba not acting like a creep? That had to be the weirdest thing I ever saw in my life!" Joey stated.

Tea was equally stunned. "I feel bad for Mokuba. I mean, yeah.......he actually acted like a normal teen. It was almost refreshing to see Kaiba acting, well......nice for a change. But on the down side, he didn't even remember his own brother."

"I'm not surprised. Kaiba never cared for anyone, when he even did remember.......not even Mokuba." Joey spat.

Yugi smiled, saying, "Yami is curious to see if Kaiba will be this way as well, when he gets out of the hospital."

"Fat chance", Joey said. "Jerks never change.......especially Kaiba!"