YUGIOH

Amnesia

Chapter 22.

It was dark, and Joey hung there, leaning against the bars of the jail cell, finally calmed down after earlier. He remembered seeing red when Serenity began to cry, telling him what had truly happened to start the whole ball rolling. Joey quickly left, saying there was something he had to do. He was shocked his sister let him leave. She was so out of it, she didn't even realize where he might be going. Joey searched the whole town, finding Duke Devlin hanging out with Tristan and a bunch of girls over at a nightclub, having drinks.

Joey came into the nightclub, and attacked Duke, threatening to kill him. The women ran, Tristan tried to hold him back and failed....the bar's security came to hold him back, and also failed. It took the police to arrive to finally subdue him, and by that time...Duke was really messed-up. Joey was hauled out of the place, throwing obscenities, and ranting about no one touching his sister.

The words were still going through his head what his sister said to him that day. Kaiba didn't betray her, she betrayed Kaiba....or so he thought. A realization had hit Joey, as he finally figured it out. Kaiba's anger was no different than his. When either of them got angry, they both had a tendency to lash out and do really stupid things. The only thing different was the style....Joey normally lashed out like your typical bar-brawler, while Kaiba would usually start plotting the end of the world. Either way, people got hurt in the end. He remembered he was so blind with rage, he hit Tristan too while his friend was trying to stop him. He didn't mean for Tristan to get in the way. Fortunately, the damage wasn't nearly as bad as how Duke ended up. The irony of it all was that Joey probably caused more harm to the group, than Kaiba even did.

Just then, the a police came in, saying, "Wheeler....come on, you've been bailed out."

"I have? By who?" Joey asked.

"A Mr. Motou." The man answered.

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Joey, Yugi, and his grandfather left the police station, heading to the grandfather's car. "What did you do this time, Joey?"

"Ah, man....I couldn't help it. After what Serenity said, I just flipped. I'm sorry Yug, I didn't believe ya. I was so angry with everything that happened, that I was pushing away the people I really cared for." Joey said.

"It's okay, Joey....everyone was upset from what happened." Yugi said.

"Naw, Yugi....it's not okay. I was acting no better than that lousy Kaiba!" Joey spat out. "He was so angry with what he thought he saw, that he ended up taking it out on everyone else....all the people that really cared about him!" Joey said, getting in the car.

Yugi got in, looking over at Joey. "He 'thought' he saw? What do you mean, Joey?"

"Serenity told me everything, once she realized what happened, herself. I told her what you said, and what you thought, and she broke into tears, blaming herself. She said, Kaiba must have shown up at their date, and caught her kissing that snake Duke. But it wasn't Serenity's fault! It was that jerk, trying to push himself on my sister! Man....I showed him. Who does he think he is, touching my sister that way? I oughta go back to the hospital right now and teach him another lesson!" Joey snapped, forgetting about the shiner he left on Tristan, for the moment.

"I think you'd taught enough lessons today, Joey." Mr. Motou said.

"Yeah, I guess your right, gramps. I made my point pretty clear." Joey nodded.

"But what are we going to do about all this, Joey? Maybe we should try to talk to Kaiba, and get this all straightened out. After all, the reason he was lashing out, wasn't because he really hated us, it was because he was hurt and felt betrayed." Yugi said.

"That aint my problem, Yug. Maybe he did feel bad about what happened, but what he almost did to my sister....to all of us, there's no excuse for it! He had plenty of time to talk it over with Serenity, instead of just lashing out at everyone like that!" Joey said.

"You should talk." Mr. Motou said.

"All right....ya got me there." Joey said. "But atleast I wasn't planning on killing everyone, just cuz I was in a bad mood! If the time ran out, we'd all be dead now, over a stupid misunderstanding...."

"He....wasn't going to hurt anyone." Yugi said.

"Yugi, you saw what happened.....how can you say dat?" Joey snapped.

"Well....I called Kaiba's house earlier, and got Mokuba on the phone. We talked a little bit, and I asked him what happened." Yugi explained.

Joey asked, "So, what he say?"

"He didn't know the details behind why Kaiba acted the way he did, but he did know that when he was suppose to push the button to kill us all, he couldn't do it. He just froze. It was already passed the time, and he still didn't do it. Joey....Kaiba couldn't do it, because deep inside, despite what pain he was in, he still cared about us." Yugi said.

"Huh. I'd have to see it to believe it...." Joey said, crossing his arms.

"Then, let's head over to Kaiba's and talk to him!" Yugi said.

"But...." Joey asked.

".....and no fighting." Mr. Motou said to Joey, as he turned to drive them to the mansion.