Breathe In

By tani-chan

Chapter Two: Relating To A Psychopath

Disclaimer: If I owned YuuGiOu, I'd be animating this. And be stinking rich.

Genre: Drama/Humor/Romance

Rating: PG-15/T/M

Note: Well, this is my first YuuGiOu fanfiction. :sighs and shrugs: Not sure if I quite like it so far, but I love the original character that I made for this whole idea, and decided to try and write it out. Hate it, love it, just tell me what you think. Maybe I'll actually complete it someday. XD; (Warning: Pretty severe OOCness on most accounts. And cheesiness at times. You have been warned.)

Maigo just kept smiling at me, giving me a wink, as there was a soft rapping of a knock on the door. Blinking nervously, I shook my head, waving my hand over at one of the chairs in the room, hoping that she would get the hint of me wanting her to sit back down. She just merely smiled again, sitting calmly at one of the chairs by the window as the person knocked again, this time, louder.

"U-uh, yes! Come in!" I said, throwing her a glare quickly as she chuckled again. Odd as she was, I could tell that she was annoying me on purpose, just to get me riled up.

And unfortunately for me, it was working, too. Argh.

The doctor who had knocked walked calmly in, just as he usually did. I sighed; feeling more annoyance as I recognized him as one of the many shrinks the hospital had me see. And if I remembered correctly, this guy was one of the worst; not really showing any care for me, but rather making sure he got paid and to just get credit for at least trying to

'cure' me. Ugh, I hated him.

He nodded silently to me, pulling up some papers on his little clipboard before talking to me again. "Well, Mr. Mutou, it looks like you haven't improved much since our last visit. Care to tell me why?" he said, listlessly, his eyes partially glazed over as if he wasn't fully here. Probably hooked up on some of his own medication, no doubt. I rolled my eyes at the thought, sick of all the doctors and the mind numbing stuff that even they took.

But, as much as the shrinks wanted me to take anti-depression medication, I refused; hearing enough horror stories about it and seeing some of the effects it can cause mostly turned me off to it all together. Besides, happy pills are retarded, anyway.

"Well, I don't know, doctor. Could be that I'm not right in my mind as you and your colleagues like to say," I said, sarcastically, turning my face back to the window. I heard Maigo chuckle softly, but the doctor either ignored her or just didn't hear her, since he just nodded as he always did, scribbling something down on one of the papers on the clipboard before continuing.

"Yes, well, that seems to be the general problem with you, Mr. Mutou. Now, if you could elaborate on what seems to be causing this…" he began, giving me a cold stare as he usually did. I just shrugged and huffed, rolling my eyes.

"I told you. Someone very close to me… died. I think that's enough for you to know," I said, still keeping my eyes on the windows, as the rain got even heavier. "Yes yes, you have. But I find, and have told you many times, Mr. Mutou, that talking about exactly what happened can take a lot of the burden off of one's… let's say… soul."

I just rolled my eyes again, feeling more annoyed. Oh, hell, yeah, I'll explain. 'Hey, Mr. Doctor, I just happened to be sharing my body with an ancient spirit of a Pharaoh of five thousand years ago who supposedly didn't exist since his name and past was erased off the face of the earth. But, hell, we fought multiple crazy people trying to take over the world together and I kinda got close to him, but hell, he needed to go to the underworld, and I sent him off myself.' Oh, hell yeah. That'd go over real well. If it wouldn't land me in the looney bin, it'd certainly get me into a more secluded part of the hospital.

Maigo must have noticed my annoyance at this, and she chuckled again, this time more loudly than before so even the doctor took notice and looked over at her. "O-oh, I'm sorry ma'am. I didn't know that you were visiting with him, but I'm afraid that I'll have to ask you to leave," the doctor said rather coldly, obviously not really caring but more flustered that he didn't even notice another person in the room. I had to hold back a snort of laughter at that.

"Oh no, I'm sure Yuugi-san doesn't mind I'm in here with him. So, I'd like to stay, if that's alright with you," she said, calmly, her own emotionless gaze staring back at the doctor.

He shifted in his chair, and shook his head, clearly annoyed. "I'd have to say it's not, but I suppose maybe you could come in later. But I'd still rather advise that you leave the room during all of the session. I've always found that patients work better when they're alone, and away from any that they might care about, as this makes them embarrassed," he said, returning her remark.

Maigo just shrugged and nodded, her soft smile turning into something more akin to a smirk. "That may as well be true, but it may also help the patient to get over this fear of embarrassment or disappointing his friends and family if one of them is here with them," she said, still calm. Whoo, she was even starting to scare me, much less the doctor. How did she get confidence like this!

The doctor just shifted again in his chair, gritting his teeth together in annoyance. "Thank you for your opinion miss, but I'm afraid that I'm the doctor and would like to request that you'd please leave," he said, grounding out his words.

"And I'm afraid that your… 'request' is denied. I'd like to stay," she said, her gaze seemingly icing over. I blinked, torn between laughing and trying to see if I could just run away. The way she was acting, I could swear she was a female version of Kaiba-kun. But, hell, odd as this was, it was turning out to be quite entertaining, to say the least.

The doctor bristled and stood up, apparently meeting his wit's end. (Quite a short fuse he has.) "Miss, I'm afraid that I will have to require you to leave then! This is a private session, and I would rather you leave than me having to call security," he said, gripping his clipboard tightly.

Maigo just gave him a smile, and shook her head. "No, I'm afraid I'm not to going to leave, even if you do call security on me," she said quickly, making the doctor's mouth shut as he was about to speak again. "Besides, it's apparent that your treatment isn't working very well for Yuugi-san. You even said so yourself. I'd rather him being treated by someone else other than the doctors of this hospital," she concluded, standing up herself and giving a small smile to me before turning back to giving a cold stare to the doctor.

I blinked, looking between the two from my little convenient spot on the bed. The doctor was near shaking with rage at her comment, clearly enraged with Maigo's comment. Hell, like I cared. Her insulting the doctor was quite amusing to watch and a bit of a stress reliever as well, as if I was yelling at him. And she seemed quite fine with it, standing calmly with her arms crossed, as lighting starting to flash behind her, just like a cheesy dramatic effect. Hell, it sure worked though.

Looking at her again, she just gave me another smile, before smirking again and turning back to glaring calmly at the doctor. Yep, she's scary, alright. Mark her down on the list someone I don't ever want to cross.

The doctor just returned her glare, stretching up to his full height, which probably made him feel a lot more confident; considering Maigo was a good foot shorter than him. She didn't flinch though, and kept her gaze, her smirk forming again as if she found it amusing.

"Miss, are you questioning my ability to do my job?" he said bitterly, walking a bit closer to her. "Well, not exactly. More like just telling you you suck at it," Maigo said, shrugging causally. "Miss! I would hope that you are joking!" the doctor said, his face starting to flush, making him look quite funny, forcing me to hold back another snort of laughter.

"Well, I'm afraid that I'm not, and I believe I'll be leaving and taking Yuugi-san with me, I'm afraid. Your treatment is clearly not working for him, and probably just making him even worse. Taking that into account, I'll be taking him to a specialist of my own," Maigo said, not even letting the doctor speak leaving him dumbfounded for a moment before he regained his steam.

"And on whose authority do you have for this!" he said, or more rather yelled, apparently completely dumbfounded at the short young woman before him. "Oh, no one's, really, but the nurse at the front desk might have something for you," she said, walking over to my bed and tapping me on the arm, still smiling at me. "Shall we go?"

I blinked, feeling as dumbfounded as the doctor. This girl just randomly showed up out of the blue, acts as if we've known each other for years, then infuriates one of the doctors and plans to drag me out of here! Okay, confusing.

She just chuckled at me though, and went over to the closet where some of my spare clothing was kept, pulling it out and folding it neatly into a bag, completely ignoring the doctor who was still dumbstruck, but now making his way towards the door; probably to go to the nurse at the front desk like Maigo said.

Maigo tapped me on the arm again, now grinning. "Come on, lazy butt. I'd said I'd break you out of here, but you'll have to move, too, ya know. I don't think I can carry you."

I just blinked at her, still feeling rather dumbstruck and stupid. This girl was more insane than I was! But, I just blinked again and shook my head again, feeling extremely awkward.

"Errr… right," I said, stupidly, grabbing at the bag in her hands. "Let… let me change first," I added, pulling it out of her hands and hugging it to my chest, now feeling even more stupid. Or more accurately, overwhelmed. This girl was more confusing than Jounouchi when he was drunk. And that's confusing and scary, believe me.

She just chuckled again and nodded, walking over to the door. "I'll be in the hall, but try to hurry. That doctor's odd," she said simply, shutting the door behind her. I just gaped at the door before shaking my head again. She was odder than him, but I didn't have any right to say anything.

I quickly changed, stuffing the few pictures and other random things I had with me in the bag, glancing at my deck before sticking in the bag as well, walking rather shakily to the door. Sure enough, Maigo was still out there, humming an odd tune, before turning to me and smiling, nodding and leading the way over to the entrance of the hospital. The nurse was gaping at her, probably hearing what happened with the doctor, but didn't say anything and Maigo didn't seem to notice or care.

"Don't worry about being weak for a while and having some trouble walking," Maigo said, walking briskly out the automated doors to the entrance of the hospital, making me have to try and steady myself just keep up with her. "You were laid up for quite a while, so it's like you're going to have to reteach your body to move. But soon enough you'll be walking around just like you used to," she added, throwing a smile at me.

"And would you look at that. Rain stopped," she said, glancing up at the now just grey sky, the sun shining weakly through the clouds. "Pity. I wanted to get you to dance in the rain."

I couldn't help but smile a bit myself, looking up at the sky as well, before following after her in my slow staggering walk as she made her way down the street. This morning was just another rainy, bleak day, and then this happens, and the next thing I know, I'm leaving the hospital with a complete stranger, with her acting like this is a completely normal day for her.

Oh, boy. This can't bode well.

But then again, it can.

Oh well. Off I go, into yet another 'unknown.'

Wish me luck.

Yay for second chapter-ness. XD

This was kinda fun to write, let alone interesting. XD;

Title for this chapter comes from 'Relating To A Psychopath' by Macy Gray. Thought it'd fit. ;

Maigo's quite the oddball, yes? XD

But she's random like that, despite the fact that she'd just do this anyway. Popping up randomly and scaring people seems to be her specialty. XD; Feh. :shrugs:

And, w00t w00t, I got two reviews. Le shock. O:

And in response to Cloaked Fox: Yeah. I know. I have reasons for most of it, too. I disagree with the Mary Sue comment, but I suppose she is a bit of one, at least. Oh well.Oh, and I agree with Seto too, but hell, this is from Yuugi's point of view. I don't think he'd admit that too easily. :Shrugs: XP Oh well.
And, hey, if you don't like it, don't read it. :shrugs: Thanks for voicing your opinion though. Always good.

Thanks to Seething-Z as well. I hope you continue to like it… kinda. XD
I suppose I made her a bit out-landish now though. ; Erk. Oh well.
Thanks though.

Favourite line: 'This girl was more confusing than Jounouchi when he was drunk. And that's confusing and scary, believe me.'
Heh, Jounouchi drunk. XD That'd enough to scare me.

Well, that's all I have to comment on now.

See you next chapter, hopefully. XD

Do note that flames will be used to toast bread and make tea.

Thank you for reading and please review.

tani-chan