WhiteMageRyou: -yawns- ok...
Marik: ok what?
WhiteMageRyou: shut up
Marik: what the hell did I do?
Bakura: drop it Marik
Ryou: yeah.
WhiteMageRyou: I don't own ygo, any hospitals or rain.. -falls over-
Yugi: -blink-
Pharaoh: -yawns- man, all this school stuff sucks..
WhiteMageRyou: you can say that again
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Chapter 12: Crying inside
"Ryou, would you like me to go get you some dry cloths?" The pharaoh asked as he stroked the back of Ryou's head, being careful not to touch the bandage around his head. Ryou's hands clutched Yami's shirt tightly, they were icy cold.
Ryou looked up at him, eye red and bloodshot.
"You stay here alright? Bakura will be find, just you wait and see ok?"
Ryou nodded.
"I'll come back with some dry cloths and something warm for you to drink."
The pharaoh directed Ryou to a chair and headed out of the hospital.
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Malik looked at the phone. Next to the phone was a pad of paper and a pen. He grabbed it and looked at it. 'Looks like there was directions left in case something bad happened…' he thought reading the notes.
"Bakura, if you ever knock me out and something happens do the following. One, pick up phone and dial 911, two explain what is wrong, three do what the person says… sounds easy enough." Malik did what the note said.
"Hello… yes Yugi, he's barley breathing and he won't wake up… ok…"
a few minutes later…
A knock on the door made Malik jump up and run to it. He opened it and looked at the two men.
"Yugi's in there." He said pointing towards the room. The men ran into the room and looked at Yugi. They lifted him onto one of those rolly bed things.. shut up I can't remember what they're called! … anyway, the two men pulled Yugi out of the house and into the ambulance. Malik followed, they told him to get in and shut the doors. The siren turned on and the ambulance took off.
Yami stood at a street corner, he looked up at the crosswalk sign. The light changed and he started to cross. As he reached the other side an ambulance flew past him. He looked back at it as he wiped some of the mud that had splashed onto his face off. His heart skipped a beat as he let out his breath. He had this strange feeling. A feeling he couldn't really point out, but the feeling made his gut turn. The pharaoh started to run.
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Yami raced around the house, but didn't find any signs of life. "Yugi!"
He bit his lower lip, this didn't mean Yugi was in trouble. This didn't mean anything. He just had to get Ryou some dry cloths and go back to the hospital. He walked into Ryou's room and snagged some jeans and a few shirts. He put them in a bag and headed back towards the hospital.
He found Ryou asleep at Bakura's bedside. Bakura was out cold, but got away with old a broken arm and a few cuts and bruises. The pharaoh woke Ryou up and handed him the cloths. "Here, go get dressed and get your self something to eat."
Ryou looked up at him. "I don't want to leave Bakura… what if he wakes up and no one is here?"
"Don't worry Ryou. I'll stay and watch him while you eat."
"But…"
"It won't do you any good getting a cold by staying in those wet cloths." The pharaoh said.
Ryou hesitated but got up and left.
Yami sat down and looked at Bakura. "I knew you loved your hikari enough to die for him." He smirked, but it didn't last long. Thoughts of his own hikari needing him came. "Yugi…"
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"No!" Malik shook his head. "No, no, no, no!"
"I know this is hard to take Mr. Ishtar, but he's brain dead." The doctor said.
"NO!" Malik yelled. He looked at Yugi. "Yugi! Wake up! The pharaoh won't like this!"
The doctor blinked. "Pharaoh?"
"Yes the pharaoh!" Malik said. "He takes care of Yugi, Marik takes care of me and Bakura takes care of Ryou. Marik was trying to kill the pharaoh so that he could rule the world and he told me he was going to use the millennium rod to control Yugi's mind to make Yugi kill- hey! What are you going to do with that needle! Don't! STAY AWAY! AHH!"
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Yami sighed and told himself for the hundredth time that Yugi would be fine without him around for a few hours.
"No … don't…" a groggy familiar voice said. "The pharaoh … he … needs to know…"
Yami looked out the doorway as a rolly bed rolled past. He saw Malik tied down to it. Malik looked at him, extremely out of it.
"Pharaoh … Yugi…"
A man following him pulled out a needle. "It'll be alright Mr. Ishtar. We'll get you some place where Marik won't be able to kill anyone."
Malik's eyes closed, whispering, "Don't ... worry … about me…" and he was out like a light.
Yami was going to go after Malik but thought that he would be ok. He looked around. He found a nurse. "I'm looking for someone. His name is Yugi Motou."
The nurse looked at him sadly. "Oh, yes."
Yamis eyes widened. "What?"
"Please, fallow me." The nurse said turning. The pharaoh followed her into a room. She stopped and pointed to the bed. Yami ran over to it and looked down at his hikari. "Yugi, how could I let something happen to you again?"
He clutched the side of the bed tightly. His knuckles turned red. Yami closed his eyes and slammed his fist against the wall. "Damn it!" 'All of this is my fault! If I would have just stopped Yugi when this all started we would be fine.'
On the roof top, the pharaoh looked down at the street below. "I'm the one at fault…" He could feel the darkness in his heart spreading.
"That's right pharaoh, let the darkness fill you instead of doing something about it."
Yami turned around and looked at Dartz who was leaned up against the wall near the roof access door.
"You out of anyone else in the world should know to not to give your heart to the darkness." Dartz opened his eyes and looked at Yami. He walked over to him. "But that's just what I thought. So go ahead and jump."
"Jump?"
Dartz looked over the edge. "You were thinking about jumping off weren't you?"
"I…"
"It's ok Pharaoh, we all feel like jumping once and a while."
Yami looked at Dartz then at his shoes. Dartz hung his arms off the edge and sighed. "So are you really going to give up?"
Dartz looked up at Yami. "If you don't do anything, nothing'll get done. How many ways do I have to put it for you? Even I know the different possible ways for you to save Yugi."
Yami looked at Dartz again. He had a point. The pharaoh wondered why Dartz was hepping him but he would have to worry about that later, just like how he still had to go get Malik. He started for the exit back into the hospital, stopped and looked back at Dartz. "Thanks."
"No problem. That makes up for when I took advantage of you while you were drunk."
"Took advantage of?" The pharaohs eye twitched, he hadn't remembered much about that night at Ryou's birthday party. Just light memories of Bakura getting him drunk and Marik talking to him about how to get the 'insane' look going so that people were afraid and knew how serious you were when you said you were going to take over the world.
"Uh ... never mind." Dartz said. Yami headed back inside when he remembered that he had told Ryou he'd watch over Bakura. He ran into the room to find it like he had left it. He sat down and looked at Bakura just as Ryou walked back in.
"He didn't wake up?" Ryou asked.
"No, he's still asleep. Don't worry about him so much alright? He'll be fine." Yami said standing up. Ryou sat down in his place.
"I should have made him pay more attention to me when I was teaching him things..."
The pharaoh looked down at Ryou. "Hm?"
"He would always get distracted and just pretend to know what he was doing. If I would have just pushed him a bit more than he might have learned not to push me and get hit but pull me out of the way."
The pharaoh knelt down. "Ryou, do you remember everything?"
Ryou didn't look at him but at Bakura. He ran his hand through his damp hair. "Yeah, when I hit my head everything came running back to me." He laughed sadly. "Guess something good came out of this?"
Yami forced a smile. "Yeah. When Bakura wakes up, he'll feel a lot better knowing you're ok and that you have your memory back. He might not show it but he really worries about you."
When Ryou didn't respond, the pharaoh went to the door. He looked back at Ryou and then walked to Yugi's room. He sat down and took Yugi's hand. "I'll make sure you wake up too Yugi. I'll get you back some how."
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Malik opened his eyes but quickly shut them again due to the brightness of the room he was in. His entire body was numb, his pushed himself up weakly and opened his eyes again. "Where?" He pushed down on the padded flooring and walls.
"Hey friendship- uh I mean Malik."
Malik looked around. "Who's there?"
"It's me! Tea!"
"Tea?"
"Tea!"
"Tea who?"
"Tea your friend, remember? You took over my mind like two or three times because Marik was trying to send you to the shadow realm?"
"...uh..."
"Friendship?"
"Ok..." Malik said as he stood up. The wall opened up and Tea poked her head in. Malik looked at her, she looked back at him. He ran for the door, pushed her out of the way and took off running. He ran out of the hospital and down the street. He slowed dow wen he couldn't breath.
"friend..."
He looked around.
"..ship.."
Malik tripped over a garbage can and landed in a puddle of muddy water.
"Friends..."
He got up and continued to look around. A shadow moved and it made him jump. His shirt got caught on something and ripped. He stummbled forward and ran into someone. He looked up as a flash of lightening filled the sky. He screamed and took off running. He could hear the footsteps running after him.
"Stay away beast!" Malik screamed. He saw the museum up ahead and decided that he could loose monster in there. He ran up the steps and inside. Tea tripped on the last step and hit the doors hard.
Malik ran into the Egypt section slipped.
"Are you alright? Malik!" A womans voice said. Malik felt himself being pulled to his feet. He looked at Isis and Odion.
"W-who?"
Isis smiled kindly at him. "It's alright pharaoh told us that you didn't remember us. I'm your sister Isis and this is Odion."
"Master Malik, you're soaked, perhaps you should change." Odion said.
"O-ok." Malik said.
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Yami sat in the back room of Yugi's house. The only light on was the small desk light. The pharaoh flipped through another book and wrote some more notes down. He got up and put the book off to the side and picked up a new one.
Marik watched from the window. A smile curled on his lips as he waited to see the pharaoh have a melt down.
Yami sighed as he grabbed another book. "I'll get this to work." Yami said. "I'm not giving up on him. I'm not going to let his fait be this."
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Bakura looked over at Ryou. His arm hurt and so did his head. Bakura reached out and touched Ryou's hair. He smiled and closed his eyes for a moment. 'Good, he looks ok.' Bakura sat up and pulled the blanket off him. He wrapped it around Ryou and stood up. He saw a small bag of clothing sitting in the chair next to his sleeping hikari. He took it and changed slowly into a pair of jeans and a shirt. He tossed the hospital gown on the bed and picked up Ryou with his arm. He set Ryou into a wheelchair that was in the room and pushed him out the door.
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Malik sat on a bench in dry cloths. Isis was brushing his hair and talking about their home back in Egypt. Odion stood a few feet away watching.
"Do we have parents?" Malik suddenly asked.
Isis stopped brushing his hair for a moment and looked off to the side. "Our parents are dead."
"How did they die?" Malik asked. Isis bit her lower lip.
"Perhaps that question is best for another time." Isis said as she started to brush his hair again.
Odion cleared his throat. "I will take master Malik back to Ryou's home."
"I think that would be best." Isis said. "Malik, would you like us to stay with you for a while?"
Malik nodded. He might not have remembered the two but they felt a lot safer to be around than Marik did. After all, Mairk was the one who was trying to kill Yami.
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Yami rubbed his eyes. Grandpa knocked on the door and opened it. "Yugi? Are you still at those books?"
"Yes." Yami said. Grandpa set a cup of coffee down.
"Here, this'll help you stay awake."
"Thank you." Yami said. Grandpa watched him for a moment then left. Yami looked into the coffee cup. He saw his reflection looking back up at him. A thought came to him. "What if?" He grabbed his notes and left the coffee cup on the desk. Within a flash he was running out the door.
To be continued...
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WhiteMageRyou: -yawns- so tierd... ok there you are, chapter 4
Ryou: -snuggles with Bakura- you do care
Bakura: right...
Yugi: I'm dead -cries-
Malik: what happened to my mommy and daddy? -cry-
WhiteMageRyou: ... watch the undubbed -hands Malik some dvds-
Malik: -gasp- OMG! I didn't!
Ryou: yep, you did
Malik: Oh wait, that was Marik... heh... he looks better as a kid
Marik: I'm right here you know
Malik: I know
WhiteMageRyou: -yawns and turns off light- night ygo people
everyone: night!
Tea: FRIEN-
WhiteMageRyou: -throws knife at Tea- Shut up!
