Gruzzee: Hi guys I'm back and Cazi's here with me that's what I like about him he heals fast or at least his nose did so now he sounds right
Cazi: ((comes in, in a wheelchair)) Yeah now I've just got to heal the rest of the way.
Gruzzee: so I'll be starting the chapter now and Cazi can't do anything about it this time he heh he.
Cazi: all right she doesn't own Yu-gi-oh all she owns are a few cards a few books and some lint
Gruzzee: oh and Irodescent Shadow I didn't get this story form yours thought I must say I was thinking about it when I was typing mine yours is very good I hope you update it soon it was really good.
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Yugi was startled awake by a loud boom from outside; he crawled out from under the bed looking around he was in a huge room it even had a couch and TV in it he crept towards the big double doors another bang of thunder scared him and sent him flying out of the room. Now he was in the hallway just wandering around he was looking for Yami the only person who'd ever comforted him; he turned a corner and found himself facing Kinjo only he didn't know that he was friendly, all he knew was that there was a big man in front of him.
"Is there something wrong little guy?" he asked. Yugi squeaked in fright and ran in the opposite direction he turned about a dozen corners and found himself in Yami's office with Yami bent over some paperwork wearing a pair of reading glasses. Yugi stopped in the doorway looking at Yami before looked over his shoulder remembering the scary man in the hallway he ran up to Yami's desk and crawled under it cowering there Yami looked down at the boy who had taken refuge under his work desk.
"Yugi what's wrong?" Yami asked concerned
"Don't let him get me" Yugi squeaked out
"Who?" he asked arching an eyebrow in confusion about a second later Kinjo ran in
"Sir, have you seen that little boy you brought in run by here? I think I might have scared him"
"Kinjo come here" Yami said thinking he had figured out why Yugi was so scared; Kinjo walked around Yami's desk
"Sir?"
"Is this him?" he said pointing under his desk at Yugi
"Yes, sir" Yugi looked up at Kinjo with wide eyes
"Yugi its okay you can come out Kinjo's harmless" He said smiling and helping Yugi up Yugi looked up at the big man
"H-hi I'm Y-Yugi" he stuttered
"My name is Kinjo I'm sorry if I scared you earlier" he said smiling
"You may go now Kinjo I can handle Yugi"
"Yes sir" Kinjo left Yami and Yugi alone.
"Yugi why aren't you in, erm, bed?" he stumbled over the end of that question, he knew Yugi had been sleeping under the bed instead of on it. Then another loud boom of thunder went off out side and the next second he found Yugi clinging on to him with his head buried in his chest.
"You were afraid of the storm weren't you?" he felt Yugi nod slightly as the thunder rumbled outside. Oddly enough Yami had been fond of storms ever since he was little He'd sit next to the window and actually watch the lightning, Yami had never thought of Yugi being afraid of them. Yami hugged Yugi to him and picked him up carrying him back into his bedroom he set Yugi down on the bed and tucked him in he reached under the bed and grabbed the sheet Yugi had taken under the bed with him and put it back on the bed. Yugi watched the tired Yami tucked him in
"Go to sleep I'll be back in a second" he said grabbing a pair of PJs and heading towards the bathroom. As Yugi started to drift off back to sleep he felt a weight on the other side of the bed as Yami laid down next to Yugi, he rolled over to face him Yami smiled at him
"Come here" he said opening his arms to Yugi. Yugi happily scooted into Yami's arms he wrapped his arms around Yugi who rested his head in the space were his neck met his shoulder, cuddling into Yami's warm body.
"Thank you" he heard him whisper before falling asleep.
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Yugi awoke again this time in the morning he smelled something good and realized Yami was missing. He got up and started to follow the smell until he came to the kitchen Yami was standing at the stove wearing an apron. He turned around when Yugi entered the room
"Oh good you're awake how about some breakfast?" Yami said holding up a frying pan with eggs, he noticed the previous afternoon that Yugi was extremely thin and was probably starving. Just as Yami thought, Yugi started nodding enthusiastically
"Food!" in seconds Yugi was standing next to him almost drooling over the food
'He really is hungry' Yami thought giving Yugi a plate he grabbed one for himself and sat down at the table in the middle of the large kitchen. Yami watched Yugi eating out of the corner of his eye the boy was eating just fine suddenly Yugi stopped eating looking like he'd forgotten to do something then he laid down his fork and folded his hands
"sorry God, thanks for the food I knew you'd come through, and take care of mom, and mom look I finally got a friend like you said I would, amen" Yugi finished the awkward prayer and picked up the fork and started eating again Yami was looking at Yugi
'his mother's dead?' he thought. Yami ate his breakfast and Yugi finished off another half a plate before he was done Yami left Yugi in the kitchen to eat the rest of his meal and went to watch TV he found the remote and channel surfed until he found some thing interesting on the morning news
"There has been yet another lost child case reported today" Yugi's picture flashed up on the screen
"We have been able to get a brief interview with his father" the screen switched to a video with a man with black hair and brown eyes
'Obviously Yugi got all his looks from his mother' Yami thought looking at the man on screen he was talking to a police officer
"Please sir you've got to find my son he ran away from home last night"
"Sir, can you give me his name anything to identify him by"
"Yugi, his name's Yugi he's about four foot nine he has red, black, and blond spiked hair please sir you have to find him he's only nine years old he's all I've got left" the man had tears in his eyes. They switched back to the news woman again
"Here it is again" the picture of Yugi flashed up again with all of the information on him next to it
"I you find this child call this number" the number flashed up on the screen just as Yami was about to pick up the phone he heard a soft whimper from behind the couch he turned around and there was Yugi standing there looking at the TV screen with tears streaming down his face
"Yugi what's wrong?" Yugi didn't say a word he just turned and ran Yami got off the couch and quickly followed him Yugi ran back up the stairs, hooked a corner, turned into Yami's bedroom and darted under the bed. Yami was following close behind
"Yugi?" he heard the boy's crying coming form under the bed. He knelt down and looked under the bed; there Yugi was crying his eyes out on his arms
"Yugi, what's wrong?" he said reaching out and touching the boy on the shoulder. Yugi looked at him with red puffy eyes; he crawled out from under the bed Yami drew Yugi into a comforting embrace.
"I don't want to go back" Yugi said resting his head against Yami's chest
"Why not? Your dad seemed really worried about you." He said leaning back against the bed.
"No he isn't he just wants his slave back he was just nice enough to get sober for the camera" Yugi said nuzzling towards Yami who placed a hand on his back.
"What do you mean?" he said concerned
"L-l-last night when you found m-me I was running from him. Those marks w- were from his w-w-whip, he's almost always drunk. I was about to go to school for once and he came in drunk he beat me he left and came back with a whip it hurt so bad. then he left he drove off and I tried to get some food all I found was a piece of bread so I was going back down into the basement, I wasn't allowed to be in the actual house I didn't even have a bed"
'That would explain the reason he slept under the bed last night' Yami thought as Yugi continued
"But he came home early with friends and they trapped me in the bathroom. I got away though through a window but they chased me, in a truck, but I barely lost them when I stopped I was so exhausted I just curled up in that box and then you tripped over me" Yugi said finishing his story Yami's eyes were huge by now he was looking down at Yugi
'that dirty liar he was just pretending to be worried how could he do such a thing, a whip a Ra be damned whip he beat his own son with a whip' anger started to boil up inside of him making his heart race.
"Yamiii-" Yugi couldn't finish started crying into Yami's shirt; he started to notice his shirt was getting wet
"Yugi why didn't you tell any one?" he said rubbing Yugi's back in small circles just letting the poor child cry to him.
"I-I-I wanted to b-b-but h-he threatened to k-k-kill me just like h-he d- did m-m-m-mom" he hiccupped
"Help me Yami, I don't want to go back" Yugi whispered tears still streaming down his face.
"It's going to be all right I'll make sure he never lays another finger on you" Yami whispered back cradling Yugi. They sat there like that for what seemed like forever Yugi finally finished crying and was content to sit there in Yami's arms. Yami sat there picking at Yugi's bandages when he realized that Yugi was practically not wearing anything all the boy had on were a very torn up pair of pants and whatever undergarments he wore. He detached himself from the boy
"Before we do anything you need to take a bath and I'll get you some cloths" he said smiling down at him
"Okay" Yami helped Yugi stand up and showed him were the bathroom was he helped get the bandages of and left him to bathe. Yami had to dig around in his closets a little but he did find some cloths that had gotten too small for him, he knocked on the door to make sure he was allowed in he heard the curtain on the bath tub slide shut and he entered
"Yugi I'm setting your cloths on the sink for you"
"Okay Yami" Yugi said from behind the curtain
"All right come downstairs when your done" as he was leaving the bathroom though he started to hear a sweet tune coming from behind him
"I e yu I no bo me no re n mi ne yo ju yo go ha se te ka na e ku ta ma e" (A.N: Gruzzee doesn't own "Hymn of the Fayth" from FFX) then it started over again. Yami was about to ask what it was but though against it; he went back downstairs and switched the TV off the news; he finally picked up the phone and dialed his office
"Hello?"
"It's Yami could you give me Seto Kaiba's number?" Yami ask his secretary
"yes sir" she said, it took her a few minutes before she actually found the number and actually gave it to him along with a list of things he had to do, which Yami just listened to rolling his eyes, and just finally hung up. Yugi came down after Yami was done talking with Seto
"Hey Yami" he said coming around the couch so he could see him
"How do I look?" he said turning for him. Yugi looked pretty good the pants were just fine and the shirt fit like a glove the problem was the leather shirt showed how extraordinarily thin Yugi was and hoped that wouldn't affect Seto's view of the situation.
"You look great" he said giving him a big smile.
"I have some news for you Seto Kaiba's coming over for dinner tonight" he said as Yugi plopped down next to him his eyes got big
"The Seto Kaiba, owner of Kaiba corp.!" He blurted out
"Yeah I think you'll like him he's a really nice guy I do business with him all the time" Yami said smiling at Yugi's reaction. He remembered the song Yugi had been singing earlier
"Yugi, what was that song you were singing?" he said looking at Yugi who had snuggled up next to him to watch TV with him
"I heard it at school once one of the guys was humming it and he told me it came from a game he had played it's called the "hymn of the Fayth"
"It was very nice"
"In the game he said that these creatures called Fayth sang it to the heroes and bring them hope and peace" Yugi said hugging one of the soft pillows on the couch.
"Kind of like you" he sighed quietly settling in to watch the movie playing.
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Later that night Yugi stood at the top of the stairs looking down at the front door; he gulped looking like a diver getting ready for his first Olympic jump. Yami gripped his shoulder reassuringly and he proceeded down the stairs with him
"Wait for me in the dining room I'll be there in a little while" Yugi proceeded to the dining room were he waited nervously for Kaiba to arrive. He heard a knock at the door and immediately knew who it was; Yami opened the door for his guest
"Yami old friend it's been forever how have you been!" he heard him say happily
"I'm fine and I've even got a housemate now I'd like you to meet him" Yami replied walking in with a hand on Kaiba's shoulder steering him into the dining room. Yugi stared at him the guy was tall really tall he was taller than Yami by about a foot and a half and he had on a long blue trench coat; Yugi caught himself staring and looked elsewhere.
"Seto this is Yugi" he said smiling at Yugi who just scooted down further into his chair. Yami and Seto seated themselves around the table
"So Yugi is Yami treating you well?" he said trying to strike up conversation
"Uh-huh he's really nice" Yugi said as the chef served up the food
"How old are you? Seven or eight my brother would probably love to have someone to play with" Seto asked again
"ten" Yugi said starting to eat he only ate about half of what was on his plate when he stood to take it back to the kitchen Seto's mouth almost dropped open as the boy turned and left. The child was extremely thin if he wanted to he probably could have counted his ribs; when Yugi was finally gone Kaiba leaned across the table to speak with Yami
"Is there something wrong with Yugi?" he said looking worried
"Actually that's why I called you, Yugi well his father" before he could finish Seto blurted something out
"Yami I just realized where I've seen him he's that kid on the news"
"Yes I know just let me finish, Yugi was abused his father doesn't care about him he beat him for fun he practically starved him, and get this" Yami leaned forward
"His father murdered his mother" he whispered barely audible. Seto sat back in his chair staring at Yami
"How do you know all this?" he asked dumbly
"he told me himself broke up crying trying to tell me about his mom poor kid I found him sitting out in the snow with whip marks on him he can show you if he wants I doubt he will right now" he said sitting back too.
"You do know this could qualify as kidnap."
"Yes that's why I called you I need your help you've got one of the best qualifying lawyers in the country surely he would know how to take care of a situation like this."
"Well yes but not now he's probably asleep by now tell you what I'll stay here for the night and call him in the morning" Yugi came back from the kitchen about that time
"Good night Yami" he said hugging him around the neck before he left to go to bed. Yami and Seto stayed downstairs for hours discussing how they could help Yugi until Yami saw something strange; Yugi walked by the doorway slowly just staring straight ahead he didn't even turn to look at Yami when he called him. He got up and followed Yugi quietly the boy turned into the trophy room animals hung all over the walls and guns lined the walls and big worn in chairs. Yugi made his way towards one of the gun cases he opened it and picked up one of the pistols in the case. Yami watched him carefully from the doorway Yugi placed the gun to his temple and Yami heard him whisper something to himself
"end it, end it now" Yami suddenly sprang forward he practically tackled Yugi the gun went off just as Yami ran into him causing the bullet to fly into the wooden ceiling instead of Yugi's head, and the gun slid along the floor. Yugi blinked his eyes returned to his normal sweet sparkling eyes and he looked around him looking lost Yami was still holding onto him and his eyes landed on the gun on the floor and he realized what happened he thought it had just been a dream. someone had been calling out for him to follow them it looked like such a sweet person so he did they reach a room, a big, fiery, room, and the person changed it turned into his father with a gun in one hand and a whip in the other in his dream he whipped him and burned him then it held the gun up to his head and he thought he heard someone say
"End it end it now" and the gun went off and he woke up in Yami's arms. Yugi clung to Yami
"Yugi what happened? Why did you try to kill yourself?" he asked concerned
"It was a dream...but it felt so real" Yugi said holding onto Yami like it would mean death if he let go and started to cry. Yami stood with Yugi in his arms
"It's okay Yugi, Yami's here" he said sounding like he was talking to a little kid
"Just let it out" he said as Yugi cried into his shoulder
'poor kid he's been hurt too much in his life he need's someone he can cry to someone who will take care of him he doesn't need to go back to that man who calls himself a father' Yami thought as he walked back down the hall Seto just about ran into him in the dark
"Yami what happened? I heard a gunshot!"
"I'll tell you in the morning no one was hurt. I'm going to bed" he said leaving Seto and going back up stairs; Seto knew where a spare bedroom was. They reached his bed where he laid Yugi down he had already cried himself to sleep he changed and got in bed next to Yugi who instinctively snuggled into Yami's warm body Yami wrapped his arms around the boy curving himself into him.
"night Yugi" he said kissing Yugi on the top of his head and falling to sleep 'I will take care of you'
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Gruzzee: poor Yugi
Cazi: you're evil you know that can't you give the kid a break?
Gruzzee: I want to but I've got to keep going with the story at least he's got someone to take care of him and is being beaten to a pulp I'd say that's better than nothing.
Cazi: I guess you're right, people who still read this fic please R & R