Saving Myself from the Darkness
Rated: PG - 13 for child abuse, violence, and language
Chapter Created on: Nov. 26 ,2004
Finished Chapter on: Dec. 1 , 2004
Disclaimer: I don't own Yu-Gi-Oh if I did I'd be a very rich middle school teen living in a beautiful mansion swimming in lots of cash and be Queen of Games.
A/N: Konichiwa Minna! I'm back for another update. crowd gasps it was just last week I've just updated, but since you're all great people I've made up this chapter. looks at chapter again Well there isn't that much Angst/Drama, but that will be for next chapter. At least there's some. After this update, I'll be studying for an important test. I know studying is a drag, never really studied, but this is very important. It's the CONSTITUTION TEST dun dun dun. If I have a D or an F I have to take it all over, but if I have a C I have choice. So after the test is over which will be on Dec. 8th...thinks Well I have that essay page to do and it's a take home, but surely enough I'll finish it at my friend's house. It's about two days of working the whole period of History. sighs Well I'm rambling..let's go for the chap!
'thoughts'
"Speaking"
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Full Summery: Abuse and pain was always in the life of two particular teens, one escaped but is still being haunted by the memories and one is still living it. Now this teen is almost enveloped by the darkness that has haunted him everyday of his life, who would save him? No it's not Yuugi nor one of his friends, but a certain brunet with Cerulean eyes. What happens if that teen should be fully enveloped by the darkness? Would he kill himself to take away this pain or experience love in the process of it and be forever with his love? -takes place after Battle City- -YAOI/SHONEN-AI pairings: Seto/Jou and Yami/Yuugi.-
YAOI/SHONEN-AI: Boy/Boy or Male/Male relationships(don't like I suggest you run away and find a straight pairing fic!)
Chapter 8: The Mysterious Flu
Well this was it. The day where Kaiba and I would come out of this limo together. A day where there would be whispers among our school about us and somehow, I'm nervous. You know how something might happen or someone might happen, there is a possibility. I blush at the thought.
"What are you blushing about mutt."My face paled and I looked down feeling all the embarrassment on my face form into a blush. Great, I'm blushing. What's next I suddenly kiss him? Wait scratch that, suddenly I tell him how I feel.
If I were driving this limo I'll be suddenly seen banging my head on the steering wheel if not well I don't know. I felt a lump in my throat, geez I'm that nervous. Okay Jou, calm down you can do this. The voice in my mind advised. Taking a deep breath, man I feel like a fool, I responded after swallowing the lump. "None of your business."
"Right."The other sarcastically responded as he typed on his laptop. Man I want a laptop, hey maybe if I ask nicely Kaiba would buy me one. That would be a dream come true. "Hey mutt.."He trailed off as I looked at him as he smirked. "Watch your step."
I blinked confusingly, what did he mean by that? I soon got my answer as the door opened widely and I was kicked out of the comfy limo harshly to the ground. "Why you bastard! I'll get you for that!"Kaiba smirked as he got out after me. I growled fiercely like a predator ready to strike. "After all that you still are a fucking bastard!"
"Whatever pup, I'd suggest you'd get away from here now."
Another blink. "Why?"
"The answer is behind you."
Surely enough I looked behind me and there stood almost all the students of Domino High, well I think almost. "You know this a great way to get up in the morning."I say sarcastically as I looked at Kaiba.
"Well mutt see you in class."At that he walked away as I sat on the sidewalk watching him leave while I heard others whisper about us. I just knew it was going happen. Yeah right Jou, you're not a psychic. The voice sarcastically responded as I rolled my eyes. 'Whatever.'I responded back, you know the voice kind of reminds me of Shizuka. I shrug. 'Oh well.'
I sighed, wondering how I was to keep this all a secret when suddenly I was tackled to the ground by something or someone. Seeing as Magenta, Black, and Yellow clouded my vision it was either Yuugi or Yami. I smirk, I finally got them in my grasp. "Jou-kun! You're here!"
"Hey Yuugi and Yami."
Yuugi smiled and stood up as I smirked. "Why are you smirking Jou?"He blinked innocently, as if he didn't know anything. I'll teach him for eavesdropping on Kaiba and I.
"Well Yuugi. I didn't get to pay you back for the other day."He flinched, at my tone no doubt since it sounded like a predator's tone. I'm going to give Yuugi something he'll dread, something he'll won't forget, something he'll never be able to do to me ever.
I suddenly grab him making someone and others gasp in surprise, which was of course Yami and the students of Domino High. What was I to do with him? They might be asking in their minds. "This is your punishment."
"No Jou-kun!"He struggled from my grip but it was to late, I made a fist with my right hand while the left just held the other tightly. Pushing my fist upward I pulled it downwards to the other's head. "Have mercy!"
Mercy? For eavesdropping? That's a laugh. I know I seem psychotic, I bet Seto's watching now. "You should have thought about it before you did that."Then, the dreaded part for Yuugi came, everyone was now at the edge of their seats well um..their standing positions. Suddenly I laughed, which made everyone blink confusingly. "Jou-kun?"
"Man I can't believe your faces!"I cried out in laughter but I still had my hold on the other and I ruffled the other's hair in a nuggie. Which made the other laugh. Mission accomplish, well the punishment accomplish I meant. "I can't believe you all thought I was going to hurt Yuug, of all people."
But..I know always a but, this is only a half for what I have in store for Yuug and this is just the beginning.
"JOU-KUN!"The other laughed while I continued on the "punishment" as I felt Yami growl behind me. Which caused me to stop. Insert mental pout here. "Jou-kun you shall pay for that!"The other grinned, oh shoot. I forgot about the puppy dog stage situation.
I'm dead meat, oh wait I know how to get out of this. "Look it's Mariku and Bakura back from the Shadow Realm!"The two looked as I pointed west and sprinted away laughing. "Man I can't believe they fell for that."I mused. "Next stop first period, Science."
In the shadows of the school, two figures watched amusingly. "I can't believe little Yuugi would be scared of that."The taller of the two laughed with amusement.
"I know, but did you see how the blonde used those names for escape?"
The other nodded. "What a great way to alert little Yuugi in an amused way."He smirked, the time of their plan ever drawing closer and closer.
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"Marude yume no naka mitai..marude yume no naka mitai."The song ended as I ran frantically hoping the bell wouldn't ring to signal me late.(1) I was almost there, room 12, my safe place, the place where my day of education would begin. Even though I've fallen a couple times on my face I couldn't let another second falter so I barged in. Only to be greeted by the color of white as in the floor color white.
Ring. Ring. Ring.
I was safe. Well I think I was. I made it before the bell rang, doesn't that count as safe? I stood up to see everyone in their seats chuckling to themselves about me. "Oi minna! Missed me?"I chuckled to myself.
"Welcome back Jouno-chan."I blushed at the comment, the only person who'd ever call me Jouno-chan would be, I looked to the direction of the voice and surely enough I was right. It was Mrs. Nielsen(2) my Science teacher. She was about 6 foot, I'm guessing. She has long light brown hair which she rarely wears down and is always bundled up in a ponytail style. She also had blue eyes that were much lighter than Seto's.
Everyone went back to work since they were used to her calling me that and if they laughed at that nickname I will punch them to death well maybe not death but you know what I mean. "Hey Mrs. N, what are we going to do today?"I ask before sitting down in my assigned seat.
"That's a good question Jouno-chan, I shall tell you now, we're watching another Mt. Everest movie. A lot of dead bodies, yeah!"She smiled, before turning her DVD player and yes I mean DVD player to turn on the program. I can't believe she has Tivo, hey I wonder if Seto has Tivo?
Anyways, the movie started which surprisingly wasn't a real bore like the other movies she's taped. There was really dead bodies, pretty cool well for me at least. It seemed as if time had gone by fast since the bell rang and it felt like 10 minutes since the program started. "Well off to P.E."I took out the note that Seto gave me, now I'm calling him Seto great, but oh well.
I looked at the note and smiled at the last part. I just couldn't believe that Seto would write a note for me and he's in my class too. "I wonder if Mr. Sak(3) would approve of this, he's a strict man."
Without further waiting I walked to the lockers rooms, dressed in our uniforms which were Blue and White if you haven't guessed already, and walked out to the blacktop. Surely enough this was Mile Day(4).
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"Two periods gone, three more to go."The two chuckled waiting for the right moment to put their beginning of the plan in action.
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Taking a deep breath looking to Seto who was typing at the moment, I walked over to Mr. Sak. Another 6 foot just guessing, with short black hair I mean really short, a mustache, and some glasses. "Mr. S?"
The said main looked from his attendance sheet and smiled to see me. "Hello there Jounouchi, finally feeling well I see."
"Yeah, um here's a note."I say giving him the said note nervous I don't know why, maybe it's the coldness.
He looked at the note as it said;
Dear Mr. Sak,
Please excuse Katsuya Jounouchi from running the mile today, he'd just recovered from an injury that took two months to recover. The thing is he can only walk, otherwise there might be more recovering for him if he runs. So please excuse him for today and any other day if his legs start hurting.
From,
Seto Kaiba, CEO of Kaiba Corp
"It's all fine Jounouchi you can walk for the rest of the period.. with Seto Kaiba."I froze, walk with him? Oh my god. What am I going to do? Hey wait what's his excuse?
Walking away from Mr. Sak I walked over to Seto intended to find what Mr. CEO had an excuse for walking instead of running. Sitting next to him on a lunch table I looked over to see that he was typing. A report...from English? Wait the book report essay! I smirk mentally, so he didn't do it until last minute. "Are you simply just staring at my laptop because you want to look at the stuff your dirty mind wants to see?"A cold voice interrupted my triumph moment.
"No and my mind is not dirty I don't look at those stuff, Honda does, and man that's just not human."
The other smirked at my reply. Uh oh. A Kaiba smirk..which could only mean something is going happen and it's not going to be pretty. "Well ordinary boys of our age would look at those, are you saying that you're bisexual?"
'Oh shit.'I curse mentally at myself. "I'm not bisexual, what makes you say that just because I don't like what Honda looks at?"Great he's backed me up to a corner. What do I do?
Suddenly before Kaiba could answer a sigh of relief escaped from me as a voice suddenly reached my ears. "Would boys go to the starting line I repeat would the boys go to the starting line."Mr. Sak roared as I walked fast to the starting line not noticing the other's smirk widen.
"Man that was close."I say to myself, but then I remembered I had to walk with Seto the whole period. 'Aw man...'I pout remembering that we had to do five whole laps around the blacktop to be done with it. I just can't believe five laps with Seto, questions from Seto, and other torture things he would do to make me spill the beans.
Getting ready for the race I got ready to defend all of Seto's accusations even if the bisexual thing was true. "GO!"Mr. Sak roared as the class ran like a heard of buffalos except for me and the CEO. I gulped softly waiting for the CEO to come by, waiting to be taunted, and waiting for being defensive.
"So looks like it's just you and me mutt."There he was right on cue.
I sigh not looking at him. "Yup, say why are you being excused to just walk and not run the mile like the others?"
"Well a master must always walk his dog."Great another excuse from the master and dog thing, yup what a great conversation so far.
I roll my eyes at the comment. "You won't ever let me rest in peace without doing a dog comment will you?"
The other chuckled. "Nope. Say are in love with someone?"
"Well I um.."I trail off not knowing what to say, I was expecting this but not expecting this at the same time.
I could feel cerulean eyes bear into me, trying to find the answer, but I just didn't know what to say. "Go on..who's on your mind."
"Well I am in love with someone."I finally blurt out despite the edges of my voice being a bit shaky. "She's so beautiful with her short chestnut hair and her cerulean eyes. I could almost spell her scent, sometimes I even dream about her."I can't believe I'm telling this to Seto, he was the one who I was kind of describing. "When I look into her eyes it's almost like I'm about to fall into a calm ocean, her chestnut hair looks so soft I could touch it and it would feel like a kitten's fur."Who knew I can describe someone like this. "Her scent, the wonderful cinnamon scent just takes me away, I could only wish that she would come up to me and say that she loved me and couldn't live without me. I know it is a dream, but I always try and plan to tell her, but it always comes out as a bicker fight. Someday I will tell her and someday I shall make her happy without her technology."
I can't believe I said that! Does he have that Rod? I look at him and saw nothing, guess not. Why in the world would I ever say such a thing, he got me to confess everything! Phew. I sigh, glad I put "her" instead of "him" that would be something he would let me down. "Well..that was sure interesting mutt, but you didn't have to say all those things. You should have given me a straight answer. You're such a long talker."
Long talker? Great..now I'm glad I didn't put "him" instead of "her". Moments after that we started bickering about "Who was the master and who was the mutt around here?"Then the period ended, what a great conversation..not! I walked in grumbling slightly and changed back to my original uniform of the day. I still grumbled when I walked out, man did that guy just vex me!
I prefer dream Seto over reality Seto, dream Seto was just so polite and other was just vexing. The bell rang as I came out of my thoughts. Now I sighed calmly. Hopefully Art would be relaxing then this.
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"Did you hear that aibou?"
The taller of the two nodded and smirked. "Well, well, Jounouchi has a little crush on the CEO."It was obvious to them about the crush since it all was given away. "We'll see to it that you die when we get our hands on you. Before you die though I'll just do a little playing with you."He chuckled maniacally.
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Stretching I smiled to myself, Art would never fail me, and I just knew today's project was going to be super fun. "Can't wait. I wonder if I'll get to draw today, I already know what I was going to do."I say to myself before the bell rang which signaled me for a wake up call.
Oh great just great, I run frantically putting my backpack down with the other backpacks in the process. Once again, I dash into the door and see the color white with a hint of clay color on it. The other students laughed to see me dash in like that. "Welcome back to Art class Jounouchi, now to your assigned seat."
I chuckled to myself as I got up, bruises must have formed on my legs by now. Damn that hurt, I hate not being able to run. Walking to my seat, I suddenly felt someone watching me. It wasn't a good feeling, felt like the old days back when I was with Hirutani and the gang. I shook the feeling off as I listened to what Mrs. Purcell(5) was saying.
She was about 5 foot 11 again I'm guessing so bear with me. She's very nice but can be strict, glad I don't have her in Math. She has carrot colored long hair which she puts in a ponytail style a lot. Come to think of it I've never seen her with her hair down, oh well. "Today class, we'll be free drawing, so it doesn't count for anything just have fun."Sweet! I knew it was going to be cool, but there was a catch somewhere, oh well.
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It was 40 minutes into the period, everyone had finished except for me. Well who could blame me, I was doing a Red Eyes Portrait, I just love Red Eyes. Surprisingly for today though a special guest appeared in the picture I was drawing, the Blue Eyes White Dragon. The two dragons, who would have thought I would draw them. Strangely enough though, the two dragons remind me of Seto and I.
The portrait, I wonder what I should name it. Sprinkling some glitter onto the already colored portrait, I stopped for sec to look at it, to see what I was missing. It was about the two dragons flying across the midnight sky, with a trail of glitter to signal they've been there. The stars and moon all glittered and colored, it looked pretty cool and I was done. "Wow Jounouchi."I looked to see everyone around me, didn't see that coming. "That's a cool portrait, let me guess the "Red Eyes Black Dragon" and "Blue Eyes White Dragon"."I blink at Mrs. Purcell's knowledge of Duel Monsters.
"Yeah it is how did you know?"I chuckled, putting my artist signature on the back. Now all I needed was the perfect title so, and.. just then a perfect title came into my head. "Midnight Flight For Two Legendary Dragons", the title seemed to fit the portrait, finally I'm done. I put the title on the back as everyone admired it.
She chuckled to herself. "I have a son that plays that, he's always been admiring the Red Eyes Black Dragon and Blue Eyes White Dragon, he's also been admiring you Jounouchi."
"That's cool, shall I give him an autograph?"I smiled to myself, well the day had turned right side up again, always count on Art to relax your vexing day. I took out a paper with little Red Eyes' with red lines, heh, two words; Free Time. "Here you go, I love having fans."
It was then the bell rang signaling the end of class, darn, I was hoping to make another picture. "Wait everyone!"Mrs. Purcell shouted as everyone stopped like they were frozen in time. "I had you do this exercise for practice for the masterpieces,"I knew there was a catch. "be sure to be ready for those masterpieces, for tomorrow you'll be starting them."Everyone groaned, including me, even though my masterpiece was a Red Eyes Black Dragon, it's going to be difficult. I think I'm going to hate my masterpiece sooner than the others, but I accept the challenge as I walked out the door.
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"Just two more periods and then we'll strike."The taller of the two spoke as they saw the certain person they were talking about.
The other nodded. "Then we'll see how those three will react to this sudden reaction."The two laughed, knowing the start of their plan would soon come to pass.
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"Jou-kun!"
The sound of that voice sounded very familiar, Yuugi! 'Oh no it's Yuugi, gotta run, oh shit too late!'I was tackled to the ground for the third time today by him, I can hear Yami chuckling. 'Shut up Yami!'
"Oops, sooorrry Jou."Quickly he got off me, what a relief. "So anything happen during P.E. with Kaiba..I heard you were walking with him."Aw man, not a relief. What happened to the nice Yuugi I've come to like? It's all Yami's fault! Damn him!
I growl softly, hope he didn't hear that. "Nothing happened, we just talked but then we got into an argument about the usual thing."I sigh, sliding my hand through my messy blonde locks. "It gets me ticked off, why doesn't he stop with the dog jokes!"
"Maybe because he likes you."I blush lightly at the comment. "You know how two people fight all the time it means they like you, maybe the "puppy"comments is a pet name that he likes to say to you."A pet name? Never thought of that.
I blinked as Yuugi giggled like a school girl, creepy. "No way, Kaiba would never ever and I mean never say that he likes me!"I quickly covered my mouth after that outburst. 'SHIT! I'm such a blabbermouth!'
"I knew you would break sometime!"Yuugi giggled and hugged me. "I'm glad you finally found someone."I blush in embarrassment, man Yuugi really likes embarrassing people.
I laugh nervously, I just hate Yuugi when he's in this mode. "Um sure...now I gotta go now!"I say quickly before making a run for it and quickly falling at the same time. "Aw man.."I pout on the ground as Yami picked me up from the ground, wait what?! "Yami?"
"Yeah Mr. Katsuya?"He chuckled, the "Mr. Katsuya" thing again, isn't that just great?
I looked down and blink before getting out of his grip. "Aren't you in spirit mode?"
"Nope."
My eyes widened. "No way! You're in a solid form?"I saw the other nod as Yuugi stood there giggling about the moment.
"Well see you in English Jou-kun!"Yuugi yelled smiling making a quick pit stop to hug me again and ran off to his next class.
I blinked confused, it seemed as though time has once again gone faster than I had thought. "Well off to history."Off to history...Oh great just great..boring lectures. I sigh before walking over to Room 2.
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"And that concludes the Constitution. Now does anyone have any questions?"No hands raised. "Ok then you may now do questions 1 - 34 on the back of this paper you picked up on your way in."Aw man...no need to describe Mr. Mitchell(6), he's as boring as hell. "It will be due by the end of the class so you better start now you only got 10 minutes."10 MINUTES?! Holy shit!
I took the paper and answered all the questions, I look up to see no one there except the fifth period class. Great I took too long. I hand in the questions to him and run but fall quickly. Cursing softly I got up and walked fast to English class. "Sorry I'm late Mrs. B!"
"That's ok Jounouchi, you may sit down now."Mrs. Barg(7) what can I say about her, well she's nice but is really strict. I can barely keep up with the assignments she gives us, but luckily I got Yuugi to help me in spare time. "Now everyone we still have two more people to present their essay so pay attention or I'll count points of your grade. By alphabetical order, Jounouchi you shall go first."
I curse softly before going up, why did it have to be me and not Kaiba! Damn his name advantage. Taking a deep breath I held the paper to my chest and began. "What do we know about our feelings? Well the book I read showed a lot, it's called "Flipped","Laughter erupted when I read the title of the book. "hey it was the only book not checked out from requirement books list in the library."
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"Shall we execute the plan now?"The shorter of the two asked looking at the other with a grin combined with a smirk.
The other smirked evilly. "We shall."The two took out items as they glowed, signaling the time has come for their target to fall.
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"As I was saying, it's about two eighth graders reflecting about their feelings toward the other-."I stopped suddenly not feeling very well at the moment, what the hell? I knew something like this would happen I just knew it, why did the target have to be me though? Man I feel sick and sleepy. 'Damn it! I can't see straight! I can't let Seto see me like this!'
The world started spinning rapidly in my vision. I was getting dizzier and dizzier each and every second. Is this some trick or is this just a regular cold? I did not know, but I just couldn't stay awake any longer. Everything just kept spinning and spinning, voices seemed very distant. 'Please help me anyone, Seto!'That was the last thought that crossed my mind before I blacked out of consciousness.
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"Well our work's done for today, let's go aibou."The taller one commanded the other as the said person nodded in response.
Climbing down from the tree they were using as a lookout they chuckled together. "Let's see how those three deal with the blonde's certain case of a fever."The two slowly walked away from the school. "When will the next faze commit?"The shorter of the two asked the other.
"Well aibou, let's just say, another event will be happening soon for blonde. So after that, we'll move into it."Two maniacally laughter sounded as they combined and roared throughout the streets of Domino. Leaving poor defenseless Jounouchi in an unconscious state with a deadly case of the flu. Who knows what will be happening next for Jounouchi, all this hectic stuff is just beginning, well beginning for him that is.
End of Chapter 8
Next chapter: The Confession Between Partners
A/N: smile brightly YAY! A fast update! Well hoped this satisfied you for today. Notes and Review replies next! Oh yeah song mentioned in this chapter is - "Yasashii Gogo" from the anime D.N.Angel quite a good song.
NOTES ON CHAPTER 8
1) - In my school, when the bell rings for the first time music comes on. We have to get there before the second bell and the music ends or we're tardy. Trust me, had experiences with that.
4) - Mile day, well most Wednesday's like this Wednesday, we had to run the mile. Sometimes it's Run, Walk, Run, Walk, and run,Run(1 push up), Walk(2 push ups), Run (3 push ups), Walk (4 push ups), and Run (5 push ups) or mostly Run and walk if you want.
2,3, 5,6, and 7) - All teachers of Mine right now! Well except Mr. Sak, we've switched P.E. Teachers this Trimester. This is also my schedule.
REVIEW REPLIES
marikandcloe
Well in the dub, but in Series 1 - A Shadow Game, I liked her, but in the Yuugiou-Duel Monsters Dub I hate her. I'm glad someone agrees with me with that episode, I wish they'd put Yuugiou-Duel Monsters on Adult Swim, well the Uncut version. Well I did update soon, lucky you to witness a once in a lifetime..chuckles just kidding. gives Yuugi and Yami pushies
Kumori Sakusha formerly Saelbu
glomps Winter Break I can't wait until then.
mandapandabug
Once again you review long than the others, gives medal Wow, 1988? That's so old, well that's ok I can wait. I know, Yuugi and Yami are bastards in this and last chapter. Well hope you liked this Chapter. gives Seto x Jou piccy
Consumed Rachel
That's funny Rachel, I'll keep on writing for all you reviewers and readers! You guys motivate me to keep on going! smiles And I mean it! gives Uncut DVD's of Yuugiou - Duel Monsters
Flame Swordswoman
Yeah, Yuugi was funny for making fun of Jou. Hope you enjoyed this chapter, there will be angst next chapter! Poor Jou with the flu. gives pushies of Yuugi and Jou
Well thanks for reading Chapter 8 minna! Ja ne! And thank you readers who have yet to review my story. runs to do chapter 9