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"Motou residence Yami speaking" he said
"Hey Yami can I come over?"
"Jou? You just left three hours ago what do you want"
"I've got someone to show you, and Yami, you won't believe who it is." ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- --------------------------------
"Sure Jou who is it?" Yami asked wandering who Jou had met that he thought Yami should meet.
"Good I'll bring him over" Jou said quickly before hanging up
"Who was that Yami?" Yugi asked from his seat at the table
"It was Jou he said he has someone for me to meet" Yami said sitting back down with the phone still in hand. He was thinking of something to do while they waited for the pizza and Jou. The door bell rang and Yami got up to get it as soon as he opened the door Jou came bustling in with someone in his arms just before Yami closed the door though a girl with shoulder length brown hair hurried in after him.
"Hi Yami I hope you don't mind dat I brought my sister wid me she just didn't want to leave him behind" Jou said quickly. Yami put a hand on Jou's shoulder to get him to stop moving around the living room so much
"Jou slow down who did you find?" he said slowly
"Him" Jou said holding out the child in his arms. Yami's eyes widened at the sight in front of him, it was a little boy he looked like he was only about Yugi's age his skin was so pale it almost looked white; and his hair was pure white and what struck Yami dumb was the fact that this boy also had six beautiful white wings, just like Yugi, the boy was completely unconscious. Yugi walked in to see who it was and saw who Jou was holding out to Yami,
"Ryou!" he almost yelled he practically flew at Jou grabbing the unconscious boy in a bone crushing hug
"Ryou! Ryou! Ryou!" he squealed happily
"Yugi you know this person?" Yami asked trying to figure out what had just happened.
"Yes, it's Ryou and he's alive! He's alive!" Yugi said ecstatic over seeing this
'Ryou' he quieted down within seconds and was emitting a soft cooing sound kind of like a mourning dove.
"Wow! Yugi's energetic when he's awake, huh?" Jou said staring at the pair of angels sitting on the floor.
"no, he's just happy, I didn't know there where more like him he just said he had a brother and a sister and both were killed he didn't say anything about there being more" Yami responded.
"Awww" the two heard behind them Yami turned to see Jou's sister standing there
"Oh yeah, dis is my sista, Serenity" Jou said ruffling her hair
"She's de one who found him"
"I found him when I got home, asleep on the couch when he woke up he saw me, panicked, and fainted" she explained shuffling her feet.
"He's my little brother" Yami heard Yugi say
"What do you mean? You said that you only had one brother and sister" Yami asked kneeling down next to him and feeling the unconscious ones forehead
"I never met him face to face I just saw him through glass, he was born... different" Yugi said quietly still holding onto Ryou
"What do you mean by different?" Yami asked trying to get Yugi to let go so he could pick Ryou up.
"he was born with one eye blind, white hair, and his heart wouldn't work right he was supposed to be my nest mate but for a lot of his life he was kept alive on ventilators and other things but after they got his heart fixed they kept him away from me. I could still go see him through a window in his room and then I found out why. He is a special one even more than my brother, he is a telepath, and he spoke to me through the glass constantly. one day I went to his window and he was gone, I haven't seen him since I thought they'd killed him like all the others but he's all right. He's all right." Yugi explained nuzzling the other.
"Ahhh..." Ryou moaned as Yugi held him his eyes opened slowly as he gazed at Yami and Yugi through half lidded eyes Yugi was right one of Ryou's eyes was an unnatural shade of light blue. Suddenly a set of images flashed through Yami's head as Ryou looked at him: a tank holding what looked like a human baby with slightly spiked hair and small wings floating in reddish- orange liquid, a picture of Yugi with his face pressed against a window looking in on a white rooms occupant, and the last one was a picture of the occupant's hand pressed up against the glass where Yugi had his pressed and he heard a quiet voice thinking
'There are more like me?' Yami's eyes widened as he realized that had been Ryou's memories those were his thoughts. As Ryou's eyes seemed to focus in on Yami's his eyes suddenly shot open and he started struggling to get away he started flapping his wings trying to scare away his captors. Feathers went flying everywhere as the half blind child fought to escape Yugi finally let go of him and the child went flying (A.N: not literally) and hit the wall staring wildly at them all he dropped into a fighting position wings stuck out and prickling up he looked like a caged tiger instead of the innocent little kid he'd looked like seconds before his eyes still held the same fear though. Yami tried to come closer to him
--stay away from me! -- He heard Ryou's voice scream in his head Yami proceeded to come closer
-- I kill you, I kill you! -- He heard the voice hissed deeply sounding completely different, now he got it this kid had learned how to change his mental voice to sound menacing to fit his pose, it was a bluff. Yami got close enough to where he could have touched Ryou if he wanted
--Ahhhh! -- was all Yami heard before the little guy collapsed forward onto him, his entire form trembled in Yami's arms with the effort of trying to stay up and fight Yami off, unsuccessfully.
--No, not again, I don't want to go back, so... close... -- he thought clinging onto Yami's shirt another images flashed by in his head: a bright light, a person leaning over him with a mask on and some kind of scalpel in it's hand, and a deafening scream that sounded a lot like Yugi's except it sounded a little strangled. Yami had to shake his head to get the sound to go away; Ryou was out again with a tight grip on his shirt
"Dat was very unexpected" Joey said from the couch
"The poor kid's in pain" Yami said lifting Ryou easily
"He thinks I was gong to hurt him" Yami said setting him down in one of the other chairs Yugi sat next to him emitting that cooing noise again.
"Well I guess we should get going?" Jou said standing with Serenity
"Here's my number if ya need me" he said handing Yami a piece of paper with his phone number on it
"Um thanks" Yami took the number Jou left with Serenity glancing at Ryou as they went.
"Stop, stop, I kill, I kill!" he heard Ryou screech behind him he spun around to see Yugi trying to hold onto Ryou who looked like he was having a nightmare
"Ryou, Ryou it's me Yugi remember me"
"Yugi? Help me help me they're going to hurt me" Yugi's breathing had gone up he looked like he was starting to get scared too
"It's all right Ryou I'm right here your okay" Ryou was practically climbing Yugi trying to grip him tighter
"Hold me I can't feel you hold me!" he cried
"Shh, I'm right here I'm holding you your safe your all right" Yugi said stroking Ryou's hair lightly as he cried in his arms
"Yugi is he going to be okay?" Yami asked after watching the slightly disturbing scene
"he's going to be all right he was having a horrible memory of when I was born; you see he was alive before me he had sight sound everything but they kept his actual birth back because of his heart so he got to see me born first and saw them try to kill me" Yugi said sadly. Yami sat there dumbfounded
"Yugi, tell me, how many of you are there?"
"I don't know"
"What do you mean you don't know?!" Yami yell getting frustrated and slightly angry
"I-I don't know" he cried scared of Yami and curling up with Ryou; Yami's eyes softened realizing what he'd done
"I'm sorry Yugi, please don't cry" he said
"I'm just confused, I don't know what to do" he said to himself sounding trapped. Yugi got up and walked over to Yami
"It's okay Yami we'll help you" he said hugging him close. Ryou started to wake up again his left eye opened looking around and thought he was seeing double as he looked at Yami and Yugi he tried to get up but just as he was standing Yami looked up from Yugi to see him sneaking towards the door and whispered
"Yugi, your friend is trying to escape again" with an amused tone in his voice Yugi turned to look at the unsuspecting Ryou and whistled
"Where are you going?" he asked sweetly Ryou froze on spot and looked at him
"Y-Yugi? Is that you?" he said nervously
"Yeah it's me don't be afraid he won't bite" Yugi replied pointing to Yami who was still sitting behind him. Ryou came closer to Yugi very cautiously first touching his face then his arms before the taller boy drew him into a hug with tears welling up in his eyes
"Yugi it's really you!" Yugi started to hug him back but before he knew it the boy let out a gasp of pain his fingers digging into Yugi's shirt.
--Pain! Pain! Owwww! -- Yugi heard him yell into his head Yami noticed Ryou starting to seize up
"Yugi let me see him for a second" he said wanting to take care of him he took Ryou out of Yugi's arms and laid him out on the couch and started to remove the upper half of his gown reveling his back, Yugi was sitting at his head whispering reassuring works to him and telling him Yami wasn't going to hurt him. Yami gasped at what he saw two huge dark purple bruise covered his right shoulder and his lower back Ryou hissed loudly when Yami's hand came in contact with one of them Ryou's hands were gripping the couch until his knuckles turned white.
"Yugi go to the bathroom under the sink you'll find a hot water bottle fill it for me and bring it down here" he said
"And bring some bandages too" Yugi darted off to get the things Yami had asked for. Yami sat next Ryou trying to comfort him stroking his hair as the boy whimpered
"How did you get these?" Yami asked calmly already knowing where they had probably come from
-- I, I crashed into someone's balcony for the first... the second was from them -- he thought trying to forget it, and accidentally showing Yami a picture of him crashing onto Jou's apartment balcony.
--I'm sorry -- he heard him say sadly
"For what?" Yami asked
-- For the threats -- he sighed
"That's all right I knew you were just bluffing, Yugi was scared of me too when we first met" Yami replied
"Your safe here" Yugi came back with the hot water bottle and bandages Yami took them and Yugi sat back down
"Ryou this may hurt a little" he said he applied the bottle to Ryou's back he let out a strangled cry when the bottle touched his skin but it slowly turned into a sigh as heat seeped into his hurting muscles relaxing them. Yami left it there for a few minutes then moved it to Ryou's shoulder Ryou only twitched when he did but relaxed again almost immediately. After a little bit Yami took the bottle off and slowly sat Ryou up and wrapped a couple of bandages around his middle and his shoulder
"There, better now?" Yami said smiling Ryou nodded and smiled
"What is your name?"
"Yami"
"Thank you Yami" he said wrapping his arms around Yami's neck.
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"Sir we have confirmation the target is in sight" a man said looking through the window of the Yami's living room from behind a tree.
"Good now don't loose him again or it'll be your hide" a voice said over the phone
"Yes sir" the man took something off his belt, pulled the pin and threw the grenade at the window.
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Ryou looked up from Yami's shoulder soon enough to see the grenade being thrown it broke through the glass
"YAMI! MOVE!" he shouted pulling Yami backwards with him and Yugi over the couch just in time. The grenade went off with a huge boom, Yami looked over the couch to see the small crater the grenade had made in the middle of the room and saw another fly through the window and roll along the floor he ducked back behind the couch as this one also went off. Yami grabbed Yugi and Ryou and ran with them Yugi managed to grab his little angel plushie as Yami ran towards the door another grenade flew through the broken window this one seemed to shake the entire house when it exploded. Yami flew through the door as the house seemed to shake another explosion sent the door bursting outward after Yami shut it sending him flying with the other two who were already crying. That's about all the poor small house could take as the first floor collapsed simultaneously bringing down the second floor with it. Yami watched as his home was destroyed he sat there trying to comfort Ryou and Yugi as sirens blared in the background.
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Gruzzee: Wow! Yugi's got a little brother and Yami lost his home
Cazi: and someone tried to assassinate them gee
Gruzzee: well I go back to school tomorrow (August 3, 2004) I had to think of something good to end this chapter with (of course TBC) so you guys read and review and come back for more.
"Motou residence Yami speaking" he said
"Hey Yami can I come over?"
"Jou? You just left three hours ago what do you want"
"I've got someone to show you, and Yami, you won't believe who it is." ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- --------------------------------
"Sure Jou who is it?" Yami asked wandering who Jou had met that he thought Yami should meet.
"Good I'll bring him over" Jou said quickly before hanging up
"Who was that Yami?" Yugi asked from his seat at the table
"It was Jou he said he has someone for me to meet" Yami said sitting back down with the phone still in hand. He was thinking of something to do while they waited for the pizza and Jou. The door bell rang and Yami got up to get it as soon as he opened the door Jou came bustling in with someone in his arms just before Yami closed the door though a girl with shoulder length brown hair hurried in after him.
"Hi Yami I hope you don't mind dat I brought my sister wid me she just didn't want to leave him behind" Jou said quickly. Yami put a hand on Jou's shoulder to get him to stop moving around the living room so much
"Jou slow down who did you find?" he said slowly
"Him" Jou said holding out the child in his arms. Yami's eyes widened at the sight in front of him, it was a little boy he looked like he was only about Yugi's age his skin was so pale it almost looked white; and his hair was pure white and what struck Yami dumb was the fact that this boy also had six beautiful white wings, just like Yugi, the boy was completely unconscious. Yugi walked in to see who it was and saw who Jou was holding out to Yami,
"Ryou!" he almost yelled he practically flew at Jou grabbing the unconscious boy in a bone crushing hug
"Ryou! Ryou! Ryou!" he squealed happily
"Yugi you know this person?" Yami asked trying to figure out what had just happened.
"Yes, it's Ryou and he's alive! He's alive!" Yugi said ecstatic over seeing this
'Ryou' he quieted down within seconds and was emitting a soft cooing sound kind of like a mourning dove.
"Wow! Yugi's energetic when he's awake, huh?" Jou said staring at the pair of angels sitting on the floor.
"no, he's just happy, I didn't know there where more like him he just said he had a brother and a sister and both were killed he didn't say anything about there being more" Yami responded.
"Awww" the two heard behind them Yami turned to see Jou's sister standing there
"Oh yeah, dis is my sista, Serenity" Jou said ruffling her hair
"She's de one who found him"
"I found him when I got home, asleep on the couch when he woke up he saw me, panicked, and fainted" she explained shuffling her feet.
"He's my little brother" Yami heard Yugi say
"What do you mean? You said that you only had one brother and sister" Yami asked kneeling down next to him and feeling the unconscious ones forehead
"I never met him face to face I just saw him through glass, he was born... different" Yugi said quietly still holding onto Ryou
"What do you mean by different?" Yami asked trying to get Yugi to let go so he could pick Ryou up.
"he was born with one eye blind, white hair, and his heart wouldn't work right he was supposed to be my nest mate but for a lot of his life he was kept alive on ventilators and other things but after they got his heart fixed they kept him away from me. I could still go see him through a window in his room and then I found out why. He is a special one even more than my brother, he is a telepath, and he spoke to me through the glass constantly. one day I went to his window and he was gone, I haven't seen him since I thought they'd killed him like all the others but he's all right. He's all right." Yugi explained nuzzling the other.
"Ahhh..." Ryou moaned as Yugi held him his eyes opened slowly as he gazed at Yami and Yugi through half lidded eyes Yugi was right one of Ryou's eyes was an unnatural shade of light blue. Suddenly a set of images flashed through Yami's head as Ryou looked at him: a tank holding what looked like a human baby with slightly spiked hair and small wings floating in reddish- orange liquid, a picture of Yugi with his face pressed against a window looking in on a white rooms occupant, and the last one was a picture of the occupant's hand pressed up against the glass where Yugi had his pressed and he heard a quiet voice thinking
'There are more like me?' Yami's eyes widened as he realized that had been Ryou's memories those were his thoughts. As Ryou's eyes seemed to focus in on Yami's his eyes suddenly shot open and he started struggling to get away he started flapping his wings trying to scare away his captors. Feathers went flying everywhere as the half blind child fought to escape Yugi finally let go of him and the child went flying (A.N: not literally) and hit the wall staring wildly at them all he dropped into a fighting position wings stuck out and prickling up he looked like a caged tiger instead of the innocent little kid he'd looked like seconds before his eyes still held the same fear though. Yami tried to come closer to him
--stay away from me! -- He heard Ryou's voice scream in his head Yami proceeded to come closer
-- I kill you, I kill you! -- He heard the voice hissed deeply sounding completely different, now he got it this kid had learned how to change his mental voice to sound menacing to fit his pose, it was a bluff. Yami got close enough to where he could have touched Ryou if he wanted
--Ahhhh! -- was all Yami heard before the little guy collapsed forward onto him, his entire form trembled in Yami's arms with the effort of trying to stay up and fight Yami off, unsuccessfully.
--No, not again, I don't want to go back, so... close... -- he thought clinging onto Yami's shirt another images flashed by in his head: a bright light, a person leaning over him with a mask on and some kind of scalpel in it's hand, and a deafening scream that sounded a lot like Yugi's except it sounded a little strangled. Yami had to shake his head to get the sound to go away; Ryou was out again with a tight grip on his shirt
"Dat was very unexpected" Joey said from the couch
"The poor kid's in pain" Yami said lifting Ryou easily
"He thinks I was gong to hurt him" Yami said setting him down in one of the other chairs Yugi sat next to him emitting that cooing noise again.
"Well I guess we should get going?" Jou said standing with Serenity
"Here's my number if ya need me" he said handing Yami a piece of paper with his phone number on it
"Um thanks" Yami took the number Jou left with Serenity glancing at Ryou as they went.
"Stop, stop, I kill, I kill!" he heard Ryou screech behind him he spun around to see Yugi trying to hold onto Ryou who looked like he was having a nightmare
"Ryou, Ryou it's me Yugi remember me"
"Yugi? Help me help me they're going to hurt me" Yugi's breathing had gone up he looked like he was starting to get scared too
"It's all right Ryou I'm right here your okay" Ryou was practically climbing Yugi trying to grip him tighter
"Hold me I can't feel you hold me!" he cried
"Shh, I'm right here I'm holding you your safe your all right" Yugi said stroking Ryou's hair lightly as he cried in his arms
"Yugi is he going to be okay?" Yami asked after watching the slightly disturbing scene
"he's going to be all right he was having a horrible memory of when I was born; you see he was alive before me he had sight sound everything but they kept his actual birth back because of his heart so he got to see me born first and saw them try to kill me" Yugi said sadly. Yami sat there dumbfounded
"Yugi, tell me, how many of you are there?"
"I don't know"
"What do you mean you don't know?!" Yami yell getting frustrated and slightly angry
"I-I don't know" he cried scared of Yami and curling up with Ryou; Yami's eyes softened realizing what he'd done
"I'm sorry Yugi, please don't cry" he said
"I'm just confused, I don't know what to do" he said to himself sounding trapped. Yugi got up and walked over to Yami
"It's okay Yami we'll help you" he said hugging him close. Ryou started to wake up again his left eye opened looking around and thought he was seeing double as he looked at Yami and Yugi he tried to get up but just as he was standing Yami looked up from Yugi to see him sneaking towards the door and whispered
"Yugi, your friend is trying to escape again" with an amused tone in his voice Yugi turned to look at the unsuspecting Ryou and whistled
"Where are you going?" he asked sweetly Ryou froze on spot and looked at him
"Y-Yugi? Is that you?" he said nervously
"Yeah it's me don't be afraid he won't bite" Yugi replied pointing to Yami who was still sitting behind him. Ryou came closer to Yugi very cautiously first touching his face then his arms before the taller boy drew him into a hug with tears welling up in his eyes
"Yugi it's really you!" Yugi started to hug him back but before he knew it the boy let out a gasp of pain his fingers digging into Yugi's shirt.
--Pain! Pain! Owwww! -- Yugi heard him yell into his head Yami noticed Ryou starting to seize up
"Yugi let me see him for a second" he said wanting to take care of him he took Ryou out of Yugi's arms and laid him out on the couch and started to remove the upper half of his gown reveling his back, Yugi was sitting at his head whispering reassuring works to him and telling him Yami wasn't going to hurt him. Yami gasped at what he saw two huge dark purple bruise covered his right shoulder and his lower back Ryou hissed loudly when Yami's hand came in contact with one of them Ryou's hands were gripping the couch until his knuckles turned white.
"Yugi go to the bathroom under the sink you'll find a hot water bottle fill it for me and bring it down here" he said
"And bring some bandages too" Yugi darted off to get the things Yami had asked for. Yami sat next Ryou trying to comfort him stroking his hair as the boy whimpered
"How did you get these?" Yami asked calmly already knowing where they had probably come from
-- I, I crashed into someone's balcony for the first... the second was from them -- he thought trying to forget it, and accidentally showing Yami a picture of him crashing onto Jou's apartment balcony.
--I'm sorry -- he heard him say sadly
"For what?" Yami asked
-- For the threats -- he sighed
"That's all right I knew you were just bluffing, Yugi was scared of me too when we first met" Yami replied
"Your safe here" Yugi came back with the hot water bottle and bandages Yami took them and Yugi sat back down
"Ryou this may hurt a little" he said he applied the bottle to Ryou's back he let out a strangled cry when the bottle touched his skin but it slowly turned into a sigh as heat seeped into his hurting muscles relaxing them. Yami left it there for a few minutes then moved it to Ryou's shoulder Ryou only twitched when he did but relaxed again almost immediately. After a little bit Yami took the bottle off and slowly sat Ryou up and wrapped a couple of bandages around his middle and his shoulder
"There, better now?" Yami said smiling Ryou nodded and smiled
"What is your name?"
"Yami"
"Thank you Yami" he said wrapping his arms around Yami's neck.
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"Sir we have confirmation the target is in sight" a man said looking through the window of the Yami's living room from behind a tree.
"Good now don't loose him again or it'll be your hide" a voice said over the phone
"Yes sir" the man took something off his belt, pulled the pin and threw the grenade at the window.
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Ryou looked up from Yami's shoulder soon enough to see the grenade being thrown it broke through the glass
"YAMI! MOVE!" he shouted pulling Yami backwards with him and Yugi over the couch just in time. The grenade went off with a huge boom, Yami looked over the couch to see the small crater the grenade had made in the middle of the room and saw another fly through the window and roll along the floor he ducked back behind the couch as this one also went off. Yami grabbed Yugi and Ryou and ran with them Yugi managed to grab his little angel plushie as Yami ran towards the door another grenade flew through the broken window this one seemed to shake the entire house when it exploded. Yami flew through the door as the house seemed to shake another explosion sent the door bursting outward after Yami shut it sending him flying with the other two who were already crying. That's about all the poor small house could take as the first floor collapsed simultaneously bringing down the second floor with it. Yami watched as his home was destroyed he sat there trying to comfort Ryou and Yugi as sirens blared in the background.
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Gruzzee: Wow! Yugi's got a little brother and Yami lost his home
Cazi: and someone tried to assassinate them gee
Gruzzee: well I go back to school tomorrow (August 3, 2004) I had to think of something good to end this chapter with (of course TBC) so you guys read and review and come back for more.