You're my Super Star
Chater 9—Yami, Yami, Where are you?
by YYY
In the Chinese Tea House, Yugi continues to cry on Joey's shoulder. "Some time I wish I can just die. If I die I can see him again. Every night, when I close my eyes; I can feel his arms around me, I can feel his breathing next to my neck; I can hear his voice saying that he loves me more than anything in the world like he always used to." Yugi sobs, "everyone think I'm going insane, all my coworkers are tying to get me to see a psychology doctor."
"You're not going insane." Joey tries to comfort Yugi.
The waitress walks up to the two boys and gives Yugi a napkin to whip the tears. "Are you okay? Can I get you a glass of water?" The waitress asks Yugi.
"I'm sorry. I don't mean to make a scene at your Tea House." Yugi says to the waitress.
"No! No! don't worry about that. We're not busy right now. you're not bothering any customers. You just let it out, okay? And call me if you need anything." The waitress smiles.
"How about we go to some place more quiet?" Joey asks Yugi, "we can talk some more after that."
'You two really don't have to go." The waitress says.
"That's okay. Thanks for the great meal. We'll be back." Joey smiles to the waitress. He pays for the meal and the lead Yugi out of the Tea House.
"You want me to take you home?" Joey asks Yugi.
"Do you mind?" Yugi asks.
"Why would I?" Joey smiles and waves to a taxi. The taxi stops and let the two boys get in.
"Good evening, sir. Where can I take you tonight?" the cab driver asks. Yugi tells the driver his address.
Soon after, the taxi arrives in front of a tall apartment complex. Joey follows Yugi off the cab and gets into the building. The two of them get into the elevator and arrives at the top floor. Yugi gets out of the elevator and walks up to the door of one of the apartment on the floor.
Yugi stands there, he makes no attempt to open the door. 'Is something the matter, Yugi?" Joey asks his friend.
"Hmm...nothing." Yugi says and puts his key into the keyhole. After he twists the key, the door opens.
"If you don't want to go in, we can go somewhere else." Joey says, the blonde can sense that Yugi is hesitating to go into the apartment.
"No, I'm fine." Yugi walks into the apartment and says, "welcome to my home, please come in."
Joey follows Yugi to the apartment. "This is a really nice place." The blond says as he sits down at sofa. Yugi sits down next to him.
"Thanks you, sorry about the dust, I hardly come back since Yami passed away." Yugi says to Joey.
"Why is that?" Joey asks.
"Because when I'm here, I see Yami everywhere." Yugi says, "When I look at the kitchen, I remember all the time he cooked for me; when I look at the sofa, I remember all the time he holds me in his arm as the two of us sitting on the soft and watch TV; when I look at the table, I remember all the time we sit at this table and eat breakfast. Every where I look, there is a piece of memories of me and Yami. That sounds pitiful, doesn't it? I'm so foolish."
"You aren't foolish. That shows how deep your love is for Yami." Joey says.
"Not too long after I dated Yami, he took me here one night and gave me the key to this place. He said to me, 'Yugi, from now on, this is going to be our home.'" Yugi says.
"You're not kidding about Yami being your inspiration. He is like a prince from a shojo manga."
"Yami a huge house oversea. He wanted me to move there with him, but he was afraid that I'm not used to oversea life; so he bought this place and moved to Tokyo. He even got a room for me to work in, see…" Yugi opens a door, inside there's a table and a chair.
"the table is facing here." Joey says, "this must be where Yami sit then. I can imagine it. You're sitting there drawing your manga, Yami is sitting right here on the sofa, watching you work…"
Yugi smiles a little. "Yeah, we spent every evening doing that." Yugi closes his eyes and tries to remember those wonderful times. Joey watches Yugi's face.
Joey reaches over and takes Yugi's hand. "Yugi, I have sometime I need to talk to you about." Joey says.
Yugi looks at Joey. Joey isn't smiling kindly anymore. The blond has a serious look on his face.
Joey looks straight into Yugi's eyes and says, "what I'm about to tell you is gonna sound crazy. You have to promise me you will keep an open mind."
"You can tell me anything. You have been listening to me the whole day." Yugi says.
"Well, what if I tell you Yami isn't suppose to be dead?" Joey asks, "and we have a chance to bring him back?"
"What?" Yugi shouts.
"The reason I come here to see you is because I know Yami is not suppose to be dead."
"How would you know?"
"I have the power to travel through Limbo. When Yami died, you were crying very, very bad. Since you're my friend, I thought I would go keep him company, and make sure he gets to the other side okay. That's the least I can do for you." Joey says, "I was following him as he travel across the Limbo, and he never got to the other side. Someone took him along the way."
Yugi looks at Joey.
"Someone just grabbed Yami and took him away when he is on his way to the other side, Yugi. I saw it with my own eyes." Joey says, "I didn't know what to do at first, so I sneak into Meifu, the land of the dead and look for Yami's record. It turns out that Yami doesn't have any record there. Yami's name was
not on the book of death, Yami is not suppose to be dead."
Yugi shakes his head, "you can't be serious."
"Yugi, you have to trust me. Someone in the underworld planned Yami's death so he or she can steal Yami away. Yami is supposed to be alive and I want to find him but I can't. Only your love can guide me to him. If I can find Yami I can take him back to the land of the living. Yugi, this is your chance to be with Yami again. All I need is for you to come with me to the Meifu. Your love for him is so strong, you can find him for sure!" Joey says.
"Who are you? Why are you toying with me?" Yugi says.
"I'm not toying with you, Yugi. You have to trust me! Only you can find Yami. I really need you help. If you don't help me Yami might be lost in underworld for eternity!" Joey pleads.
"This is the most absurd thing I have ever heard! I don't know who you are. I don't know who put you up to this, but it's the sickest joke anyone can come up with! How could you make fun of Yami's death!" Yugi shouts.
"Yugi, you have to believe me! Every word I told you is true!" Joey shouts.
"Get out! Get out of here now! If you don't leave I'm gonna call the cop!" Yugi screams as tears fall out of his eyes. He pushes Joey out the door.
"Right! Right! I'm sorry! I'm lying…Please, just don't get upset, don't cry. Forget I said anything. I don't mean to hurt you like this. I never want to make you cry." Joey says. "I'm leaving! I'm leaving right now! Don't cry. I'm going!"
Joey leaves. "I'm so stupid! How can I make Yugi goes through this? Yugi must have a hard enough dealing with yami's death. How can I just barge into Yugi's house and tell him that Yami isn't dead? I'm such a fool." Joey yells at himself.
Joey keeps walking until he reaches a park. He sits on the swing and looks up to the sky. The moon is full and bright. (Maybe I should just go back to the moon kingdom. I did more harm than good to Yugi.) Joey thinks.
"Bunny?" the voice of the moon princess comes through the sky.
"Your highness." Joey looks up to the sky.
"Do you want to come back to the moon palace? I can get you back here if you want." The princess says.
Joey lowers his head, he really wants to say 'yes'. He misses the moon garden and he wishes to go home. But then, he remembers Yugi's crying face. It really hurts Joey to see Joey crying like that.
"No, your highness, I want to go the Limbo. I'm going to find Yami for Yugi." Joey says.
"That's gonna be dangerous, bunny. I can't let you do that! If you're at Limbo the prince and I can't help you when you get in trouble!" The princess says.
"I have to go to the Limbo! I have to find Yami. Yugi doesn't deserve to live in pain like that. No one does! I'm going to look for Yami and bring him back here myself." Joey says.
"You can't! Come back to the moon palace now!" the princess says.
"I have to. Yugi is in so much pain! Your highness, if there is anyone who understand why I wanted to help Yugi it should be you! You know exactly how Yugi is feeling right now! Don't you remember when the prince left you? Remember how you can't eat? How you can't sleep? How your heart hurt? Yugi is dying inside! Let me go and find Yami, please." Joey says.
The princess of the moon doesn't know what to say.
"I'll be alright. I sneak in there once, I can sneak in there again. No one will even notice I'm there." Joey says.
Yugi sits on the floor of his house crying. Someone knocks on the door. "who is it?" Yugi shouts.
"My name is Seto, I'm from the Starr Agency. I'm looking for Joey?" Seto says from outside of the house.
Yugi gets up and opens the door. Seto says, "I'm sorry I come here and bother you. I looked up your address at your website. I really need to see Joey, but I don't know how to find him. We doesn't know anything about Joey except that he is last saw with you."
"Is he in some sort of trouble?" Yugi asks.
"No, he is not in any trouble. My company is the one going to be in trouble if I don't find him." Seto says.
"Joey left, and I don't think he is going to be back." Yugi says.
"There is no way you can find him at all?" Seto says.
"Wait, he did give me his cell phone number." Yugi says. he takes out Joey's cell phone number and gives it to Seto.
"Thanks." Seto takes out his cell phone and calls Joey's number. He then hears phone ringing.
"What in the world?" Seto looks around and sees Joey's cell phone on the floor. Seto grunts, "oh that absent minded fool! He drops his cell phone!"
"Don't worry, he should be back for his cell phone. If he comes back, I'll tell him to call you." Yugi says.
"Thank you. Sorry to bother you." Seto says. He writes down his phone number to Yugi.
"Don't worry about it." Yugi says.
The next day, Seto didn't get back to the Starr until afternoon. "I'm sorry I came back so late. I overslept." Seto says to Pegasus.
"Don't be silly. You should rest more. You were out looking for Joey the whole day yesterday and you didn't sleep much the night before because you had to talk to the police and the insurance people. You must be exhausted." Pegasus says.
"I'm not that tired. I'll be fine after I have a cup of coffee." Seto says.
"Did Yugi call you yet?" Pegasus asks.
"No. I bet Joey doesn't even realize he loose his cell phone. He is so clueless." Seto says. After getting coffee and newspapers, he sits down at his table and tries to enjoy the morning. Before he can take the first sip, his cell phone rings.
"Is that Joey?" Pegasus asks.
"No, it's from Voize." Seto says after looking at the caller ID.
"I bet that's Ricky. What is it that he wants?" Pegasus grunts.
"Hello?" Seto asks.
"Hello, my love. How are you this lovely morning?" Ricky is on the other side of the phone.
"I'm not your love. What do you want?" Seto says.
"Aww…how can you be so cold after I come all the way here to see you?" Ricky asks.
"You're here?"
"Why don't you look outside the window?"
Seto looks outside the window and mutters, "what the hell?"
Pegasus looks out the window and asks, "what's the matter?"
The tour bus of Voize drives down the street and stops right in front of Starr. The back of the bus opens it turns into a mini stage. Ricky is standing in the middle of the stage.
"What is that guy doing?" Pegasus asks.
"He is here to challenge us." Seto frowns.
"Challenge us?"
TBC…