written by Shayne Thames and Kathryn Shiver
Yu-Gi-Oh and related characters and indica © 1996 - 2005 Kazuki Takahashi
Sonic the Hedgehog and related characters © and ™ 1991 - 2005 Sega - Sonic Team
Author's Note: Um...
Yami: Um?
Sonic Remix : Um...
Yami: What, run out of matereal?
Sonic Remix:...yea...
Yami:...its a miracle.
Sonic Remix: Um...I move to Tampa in less than 2 weeks?
Yami: Um...kay...
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Chapter 07: "Detective Yami"
The came back outside, and Joey was flagged down by two girls. One of them was Mai, and the other was a white bat. "Hey you!"
Seto groaned slightly at the sight of the girls, deciding to just ignore the both of them.
Joey blushed. "Oh...hey girls..." He looked at Yugi. "Yugi, lemme introduce to the two biggest annoyances in my life, whom without...well, I'd never of met Seto. Mai Valintine and Rouge the Bat."
"I know Mai from back on my world and she's kinda responsable for you and Seto being together there as well."
"Really? Well nice to see some things never change eh?" Mai giggled and knelt before Yugi. "Yugi is it?"
A little nervous the small teen nodded, his single amythest eye a bit frightened.
She held out her hand. "Nice to meet you! Any friend of Joey's is a friend of mine."
He smiled now as he shook the offered hand. "Same here."
Yami nodded. "Nice to meet you both. Maybe we'll see you two later." They nodded and waved as the troupe headed back for the palace.
Feeling alot like his normal self the youngster hugged the plushie happily, holding onto one of Yami's hands.
Yami was looking a bit bothered as they walked down the hall. "Seto, the glass that the other Yami was drinking...run it through for testing, see if there was anything laced in the drink itself."
The brunette nodded slightly. "Alright, we've already tested Sonic's glass and it was defently laced."
He nodded. "Thanks. I'm concerned that they're maybe more to this than a simple bar fight."
One eyebrow raised. "Well Yami hasn't come home and Sonic's beleiving that he is being kept from returning."
He nodded. "We have to keep all our options open...something's just not adding up."
Nodding slowly now as he pondered he opened the door for the two of them to enter the room they had been given.
He nodded. "Thanks for the afternoon. We had a fun time. We'll talk in the morning about this mystery."
Giving Yami a rare smile the brunette handed him a small pill bottle. "These are some sleeping pills incase Yugi has more trouble getting to sleep. Amy noticed the other bottle was empty"
He nodded and took it. "Thanks. Good night."
The wolf teen left, closing the door behind him quietly.
Yami sat on the bed and scooped Yugi into his arms, nuzzling into his neck. "Mmmm..."
A delighted purr emerged as he snuggled into the welcoming arms. "I had fun today Yami."
"I have as well. I'm glad to see you so happy."
Resting his head on the other's chest the youngster yawned a bit.
"You need something to help you sleep tonight, or you think you gonna be okay?"
"I don't want nightmares..."
He sighed. "Okay...okay...here..." He opened the bottle and gave him the medication dose.
Obedently he swollowed the two pills before curling up in his arms again, amythest eye half closed.
He kissed along his neck softly. "I'll always be here for you."
Giggling a bit at the kiss the small teen looked up at him with a gentle eye. "Love you Yami."
He smiled lovingly and kissed his forehead. "I love you too...and you always make me happy when I see you so cheerful and happy."
"I know, but I'm still scared of them Yami... They looked like they wanted to kill me when we first came..."
"Shh...I know...try not to think of that..."
Yawning again the small teen settled down in the comforting embrace, the sleeping medication kicking in.
He layed back and held him in his arms. "Good night, Yugi."
"Night Yami..." Came the quiet mummer as the youngster fell asleep, snuggled close for warmth.
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The next morning, the company got up bright and early to go to a fun cafe to eat breakfast. It was some kind of cyber cafe where people could eat and hang on the internet and play games.
Yugi was eager to explore this time, not afraid to leave Yami's side for only a few minutes before he came hurring back.
Joey got a great idea. "Hey Yugi, while Seto and Yami go over their detective business over the club, how about you an I go drop in on the action at the convention center?"
Blinking he looked over at his older look alike now in question. "Is it alright Yami?"
He nodded. "Fine by me."
Giving a happy squeel he gave him a tight hug.
He laughed and huigged him back. "Go have fun."
Nodding happily he bounded on after the blond.
Seto and Yami, meanwhile, headed down to the cafe, where the police were still looking over the scene.
Informing the police that the Yami with him wasn't the same as the one who was at the club he motioned for him to head on inside.
Yami wrinkled up his nose when they stepped inside the security office. "This place smells worse everytime I step in here."
"Then lets go find the source of the smell so we can remove it."
He shook his head. "Later, I want to look at the tapes."
Shrugging he headed for the security room.
Yami viewed all the monitors on the wall. "Can I look at some of the videos from other nights that he was here? He seemed to reconize someone in the fight video, and I want to see if I can find them anywhere else."
Nodding a bit he shuffled through the tapes to find a few.
As they picked out some tapes, one of the officers came in. "Seto?"
Ice blue eyes looked up now. "Yes?"
"I just wanted to let you know we got the results on the test you asked aboiut last night."
"And? I take it that the glass was laced like Sonic's was?"
She shook her head. "No...that was the thing...however, the drink was a pretty strong alcohol, one that can trash even a heavy drinker in a shot."
Seto was slightly surprised at that. "Someone wanted that fight to happen badly."
Yami watched the officer leave and scanned through the videos, looking more concerned.
The brunette was becoming angry by now, already deciding that the one responcible for this would pay the price.
"Well we can rule out one thing..." He browsed a tape, of a night where Yami came up to drink while waiting for Sonic to come in from a mission.
"And what would that be Yami?"
"It wasn't the drink." He rewind and looked over the video again.
"It wasn't?" Confused now he studied the tape as well
"No. Ever wondered how Yami could drink and drink...and never even so much as get tipsy?"
Slowly he nodded. "How then?"
"If he's anything like I am...then he's immune to the effects of alcohol." He ejected the tape and pushed in another.
Blue eyes blinked at that then. "So it would have to of been a drug."
The one of the barfight appeared on screen. "Yes, but the tests already showed that the alcohol was not laced."
"Then how?"
"Somehow, someone got to hime between this scene-" He pointed to the video of Yami drinking. He then fastforwarded to where he got up and went into the back. "And this scene."
He frowned slightly before moving though the club, searching the floor now in case there might of been a small dart.
"Hold on a sec." He gestured back to the screen.
Eyes narrowed he came back to watch.
He paused at a certain point when Yami was drinking, and then pointed to the on-video display. "Hour, minute, second of the point he was drinking." He pointed to the date. "The night of the fight. August 13th, 3235, at 10:22:35."
Not able to notice any change he frowned. "What makes you say now?"
He put one of the tapes into a second VCR, and brought up the display, pausing it. "August 6th, 3235, at 10:22:35."
Still frowning he clanced at the two screens.
They were the exact same footage. "Look at the font for the August 13th display. The type varies from the August 6th one...I say someone's been editing some footage."
"So someone from the securty crew helped?"
He started to say something but stopped, pausing for a moment as if distracted by something. He raised a finger to signal to give him a moment.
Confused he remained silent, eyes on Yami now.
"No tapes have left this room besides the one Sonic took, right?"
"You mean Sonic may have the orginal that hasn't been tampered with?"
He shook his head. "No, the copy we have is just as real. The the video of Yami at the bar that was tampered with...so logic concludes that the orginal tape is still here."
"Hmmm..." Moving over to the box of tapes he started going through all of them, sticking each into the player to check the dates.
While Seto did that, Yami got up, looking around.
Ignoring the teen for awhile he continued scanning the many tapes.
Yami stopped at a steel locked closet. "What's in here?"
Blinking he looked up for a moment. "Not too sure."
He looked at the padlock before looking at Seto. "Let's get it open."
Nodding he pulled out the club keys he had in his pocket.
The lock opened and they opened the steel door. Yami gagged and had to cover his nose as it revealed a dead security guard along with a stash of security tapes.
Seto paled now at the sight, backing away quickly before calling for the guards.
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On the other side of town, Joey had gotten Yugi some ice cream, headed out the the main side of the plaza to catch some entertainment when Mai and Rouge caught up with them. "Hey guys!"
Licking at his ice cream happily the youngster greeted the two happily.
"Where you two headed?"
Joey grinned. "We were gonna see who was gonna be singing next."
Mai giggled. "Well, Rouge and I were about to head for the Aquarium. Wanna hang out with us? We'll even pay for the tickets!"
Yugi blinked at the offer. "Can we Joey? Please?"
He looked at Mai, then to Yugi and grinned. "Aw, why the hell not? Okay!"
Nearly clapping his hands with delight he had to hurry to lick up the dripping ice cream.
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Back at the cafe, Seto and Yami had settled to watch on the ditched security tapes that were found. One was dated two weeks before the bar fight, and they were watching a few of the ladies that had hung out with Yami make a few threats to Yami in the back of the bar about hurting Sonic if he over got in their way.
"Hmmm... Yami never mentioned about the threats before."
"He wouldn't. He'd be strong about protecting his loved one by trying to deal with the problem himself."
"Well it looks like it became out of hand that night."
He nodded and put in another video. The one of the bar front. Yami was called over, and was ofered a drink. But he didn't take it. He refused it and started to walk away, but he was immeditely pulled into the back. After that, THAT's when the bartender went flying.
"Find the tape for the back."
He nodded and brought it up, pushing it in. It showed a troupe of furries holding Yami down and injecting him some gunk.
Seto growled angerly now at seeing that, the fur on his ears and tail raising. "They are defently in trouble."
He nodded. "The gunk they pumped him with must of acted like alcohol on the brain, since he cannot be affected by normal alcohol...someone knew that..."
"The only ones who would know would be his doctors."
"...or someone that knows his entire DNA structure..."
Seto looked up at that. "Shadow."
He nodded. "Looks like you got a couple of traitors to deal with."
Nodding he motioned to the police that were within the room
He looked back over the footage of Sonic with the girls to make sure they were the same ones that threatened Yami.
"Seems they were the ones to threaten Yami, though why they would seek out Sonic of the pair is beyond me."
He narrowed his eyes before he pointed to one of the girls. "That bat looks familiar."
Seto looked up at that. "Rouge..."
He looked at Seto. "Yugi..."
The brunette looked furious now before storming out of the club to look for his pup and the shrimp that was with him.