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I got reviews! My computer's being crappy. Popups are horrible. /sighs/ Oy vey?
yaminakathy : Here it is, da so called 'update'. Enjoy? Oh and I'm glad you think it's great. I'm getting confused along my own plot... yeesh.
Pharaohs Angel : Oh you do? You do? You really DO like this? /sniffs/ Thank you!
Koishii No Tenshi : My oh my, I practically WORSHIP your fics and you're reviewing mines? /sniffs/ Wow.... oh and I'd like to know what your name means.
SilverWing147 : Yay! Someone notices my little slip up. I fixed it!
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Chapter Two
It all started when Yuugi was little and his father had put on the sports channel to encourage him. Yuugi had been due too early and therefore, his health was poor because of his underdeveloped lungs. He was also strangely silent, causing his parents to believe he is mute. At birth, he hadn't wailed like normal babies and as he grew, no baby noises were made. They feared that he wouldn't even be able to say his first word.
Still, the two teenager parents kept on bright smile around their son to support him. Once alone, they'd talk in hushed whispers as he slept on unknowingly. They'd claim that it wasn't their fault but guilty thoughts haunted their dreams, never letting them rest. The two stood behind their son holding each other, as Yuugi stared at the screen without blinking.
"Yuugi, honey, turn around and give Mommy a hug?"
Despite the fact that Yuugi was assumed mute and still only a year old, he understood what his mother said and obliged. She held him close to her heart and enveloped his warmth with hers, never wanting to let her child go.
"Yami," sighed Yuugi in his mother's arms. Her eyes widened considerably. Yuugi had just said something! She looked over to her husband, worry written clearly on her soft features.
"Honey, what did you just say? Tell Mommy," she said trying to sound curious and not demanding.
"Yami," replied the petite boy.
Darkness, he had said. Darkness was his first word. Yuugi's parents felt hope flee from them. They were ecstatic that he had finally spoken but why had his first word been 'Darkness' of all things? Where had Yuugi learned that word? They tried their best to keep him innocent but... darkness? This was just too much for them to handle.
Four years had gone by, and Yuugi was five. Darkness had been forgotten over the years for Yuugi never spoke again after he said his first word twice. That had led the doctors to believe that Yuugi is mute. They had reasoned with the doctors, telling the story of Yuugi's first word, but the doctors only suggested that they tried to make Yuugi's life a normal one. One that would be devoid of the usual communication between parent and child. Their first step was to forget that he ever spoke and not remind the young boy of it.
The mother smiled sadly down at her child, who was trying his best to use chopsticks for the first time. She brightened up when she saw his little attempts. It was hard to stay sad around her son. He always gave off a happy aura somehow.
Yuugi looked up and noticed his mother was staring at him with a loving smile and gave her a toothy grin in return. He resumed his earlier attempts, missing his mother's slight frown.
"Yuugi?" She knew it was pointless to call him and expect a response or reaction, but still she would call him with a questioning tone, if not a depressed and tired one. Yuugi had been named by his Grandfather who at the time, thought of Yuugi as a game, a puzzle waiting to be put together. Game, she thought bitterly. This was no mere game. Her trail of thoughts stopped when Yuugi mumbled something to himself.
"What did you say? Mommy didn't hear you."
"Yuugi dreamed of Yami today," sang Yuugi as he giggled, banging the chopsticks on his bowl. She gasped and nearly choked. Yuugi had spoken again. She almost yelled at Yuugi in fury for talking about Darkness again, but smiled sadly and patted his head. She would have to ask the doctors later about Yuugi talking in third person and how coherent his speech sounded for a five year old.
"Yami?"
"Yea?"
"Can Yuugi sit on your lap?"
Yami sighed and shifted so Yuugi could sit on his lap. Yuugi smiled and jumped onto Yami's lap tackling him to the ground in the process. They remained that way for a while until Yami sat up and encircled his arms around Yuugi.
"I have to go," he softly said to Yuugi, "It's time to wake up..."
"Yuugi don't wanna," pouted the other with his arms crossed in a very cute manner.
"You have to wake up too," mumbled the elder. Suddenly, he stood up bringing Yuugi with him. "I have to go."
"Aw... Yami! Don't go! Yuugi didn't get to play with you! Yami!" whined the small one.
"Yami!"
Yuugi's mother and father had hurried to Yuugi's room when they heard him call out in his sleep. Once again, it had been Yami. They had been hearing that name for many nights ever since Yuugi had started to dream about Darkness. Yuugi's mother rubbed his back in a comforting circular motion until he stopped shaking. She glanced up at her husband with pleading eyes. They needed to get away and get away they would.
Looking down at her son, she pulled him along into the crowd of people. "Now Yuugi, today you're going to see for the first time, real runners in real life. Okay?"
Yuugi nodded and flashed his mother one of his trademark smiles. They followed the crowd and filed up on the seats saving one for Yuugi's father, whom was busy paying for their tickets. Yuugi hopped enthusiastically onto his seat and patted the one beside him when his father arrived.
Together, the family joined in with the crowd, cheering as the competition slowly took its start. It was a cold day, and Yuugi huddled between his two parents asking quietly for more warmth. Yuugi's father held him on his lap and scooted closer to his wife to put an arm around her shoulders, pulling all three of them closer together. It was one small, happy family.
Once the competition was over, the family went inside their minivan ready to go home. The radio was playing and both parents were happily humming along as their son sat in the back clapping his hands giddily, while almost bouncing on his seat with the beat. They didn't notice the car coming for them. They didn't notice until Yuugi started screaming for the first time in his life.
Darkness had found Yuugi and he was swimming in blurs of red, gray, and black. He heard screaming, knowing that it was his own, and had stopped. All around, he felt silence and then light came as he opened his eyes slowly. People were swarming around him, some he recognized as doctors. Doctors, how he despised them.
Slowly and cautiously, Yuugi tried to get up only to be pushed down by one of the doctors. He flinched when met with the unfamiliar touch.
"Mommy, where's Mommy? Daddy, where's Daddy?!" Yuugi repeated his mantra and his voice got louder, until the doctors couldn't stand the racket any longer and asked one of the nurses to take him to his Mother and Father. Surprisingly, they were in the next room. Yuugi ran up to his mother's side and held her hand close to his cheeks, slowly being stained by dry tears.
"Yuugi," she rasped, "I heard you... said... Mommy for the first time..."
"Mommy! Mommy! Don't die! Don't die!" screeched the small boy.
"I won't die. I'll always be with you," she placed her free hand on Yuugi's heart, "In your heart. I'll always be with you."
"Mommy! Don't die!" Yuugi could no longer hear his mother's raspy breathing for it was replaced by a loud, beeping noise.
The doctors rushed inside and Yuugi felt himself pushed aside. No one noticed him in the corner as he shook violently whispering 'mommy' to himself over and over. No one, but the nurse who had taken him to his mother. She knelled in front of him and pulled him into a warm embrace.
"It'll be okay. Your mother's in a better place. Don't worry."
Drunken driving. Yuugi repeated it to himself quietly in the courtroom as he sat beside the nurse, Miss Catherine, who had comforted him in his time of need. She had offered to come along with him and Yuugi wanted company. Drunken driving. Yuugi didn't understand what it meant and was blaming himself for his parents' death.
It was all his fault, he thought sadly. He squirmed in his seat and whimpered. He wanted to cry again and looked over to the nurse. She smiled and whispered to him that it was okay to cry. It was okay to cry whenever he wanted. He was allowed to cry and no one should stop him from crying. Cry he did, and the whole court heard him. Yuugi had to be taken outside while the nurse remained seated awaiting the court's decision.
"With no current guardian, Yuugi Mouto, 5 years old, is to be sent to an orphanage until a relative is found. Dismissed." !
She went outside to retrieve Yuugi and explained to him the circumstances. He was to go to an orphanage until his Grandfather came back from an archaeologist dig. Tears began to form again as Yuugi hugged the nurse for the the last time. He stepped inside the car and put his face against the clear, glass window. She waved sadly and he waved back. With that, the car drove away and headed for Yuugi's new home, the local orphanage. During the drive, all Yuugi could think of was his parents. His feelings of remorse slowly subsided as he drifted off to sleep.
"Yami..."
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! I only have one or actually quite a few things to say. I don't know what happens in a court. I've never watch those court TV shows. The only exposure I got about courts was from To Kill A Mockingbird. It's a very good book. XD
A/N : REVIEWWWWWWWW, please? XD It'll keep my boat floating. Oh, and continue with the criticism please! I appreciate it! XD Won't be another update until next week, when I return from Anime Expo.