Summery: Not saying too much cause that will give it all away so suffice to say Yugi gets sick – very sick…
Someone to Save Me Chapter OneYugi put down his pen and stared through his skylight at the moon. He could plainly make out the three large 'seas' that gave the moon the look of a face. It was a perfectly clear night and the stars were out in force. Yugi yawned. It was only 9pm but he felt dog-tired as in fact he had felt for the last two weeks or so. No matter how early he had gone to bed, he would wake feeling as if he had had no rest at all. During the day he spent so much time yawning that his best friend Jounouchi (Or Jou as he liked to be called) commented that maybe Yugi was up all night playing online Duel Monsters.
This online Dueling was a new invention by Kaiba Corp to encourage people from round the world to play each other and it had taken off very well. Seto was always trying to get his friends involved in it but so far Yugi (A.N.: Yes Yugi is friends with Kaiba in this) hadn't played it preferring the traditional way of facing an opponent across an arena or the street to looking at the cards on a screen. He had shaken his head when Jou asked and yawned again.
"No Jou I don't play that, I'm just really tired lately but I don't know why."
"Well maybe you should take a few days off school and get some sleep." Jou had suggested and so Yugi was doing just that.
He had finished the homework he had got and he had decided to take a few days off school until he felt better.
'Maybe I am getting the flu or something.' He thought to himself and fell into bed barely stopping to change into his pyjamas.
The alarm clock beside Yugi's bed read 3:12am when Yugi woke up from a strange dream he had been having to find himself drenched in sweat and shivering. His pyjamas were soaked and so he stripped off completely and changed his boxers before getting back into bed and drawing the covers up round him.
'This definitely feels like flu' he muttered before drifting off again into a fitful, restless sleep.
He didn't wake up until 11am the following morning. He groaned as he lifted his head and immediately let it fall back onto the pillow.
He didn't feel well at all. He still felt really tired and his head felt hot. He closed his eyes and let sleep take him again.
He woke again in the afternoon needing the bathroom. His head didn't feel as bad as it had done earlier and so he managed to make it to the bathroom.
He thought he really should have a drink of water and some paracetamol might help him feel a little better so he descended the stairs and rummaged in the medicine cupboard for the painkillers. He found them and swilled them down with a glass of water.
The water did make him feel better and he went back upstairs and grabbed his duvet. He would lie on the couch for a while and watch TV. There was a minor league tournament he wanted to watch and he figured he would go back to bed when it had finished.
His grandpa was out of town for a week visiting an old friend and so Yugi was all alone. He didn't want to call his jii-chan and bother him with this flu thing as he was sure it would be gone in a few days – well before the old man returned.
Yugi came downstairs lugging his duvet after him. By the time he'd returned to the living room, he was out of breath and collapsed on the sofa panting. It took a long time until he was breathing normally again and by now he was shivering again still being dressed only in his boxers.
He arranged his duvet and pillow which he had also grabbed and settled down with the remote. He yawned again.
'Surely I can't still be tired?' He thought but his question was answered with another yawn.
Well he would go to bed when this program was finished. For now he was happy to lie there and watch the goings on quietly.
He never realised he had fallen asleep again until he woke sometime in the middle of the night to the overnight news and found himself to be drenched in sweat again. He shivered violently and pulled the covers up round him not wanting to get out even to change his soaking underwear. He felt really awful and began to wish jii-chan were there to give him a comforting word or two. He didn't think that he should call the doctor, as he was sure it was just the flu so he curled into a ball under his cover and closed his eyes waiting for sleep to take him again.
The following day was a Saturday and there was no school for Jou and the others. Jou, Honda and Seto were quite worried about Yugi as they hadn't heard anything from him since he had left a couple days ago.
"I think we should go see him." Seto suggested and the other two agreed. They need not stay long if Yugi was feeling rough, but they could at least say hello to him and see if there was anything they could do for him.
They arrived in Seto's limousine and knocked on the door. There was no reply so they went to peer in through the window of the living room, which was at the back.
There they saw Yugi on the sofa and from the looks of him he was quite sick. His normally pale face was flushed and they could see beads of sweat running down his face. He was thrashing round under his cover and the three watching outside gasped when they saw some blood on the cover.
"Oh my god Seto we have to get in there!" Jou shouted and ran round to the back door and to the water butt where he knew jii-chan always kept a spare key.
"Call an ambulance Seto." Honda said and looked up to see the CEO rapidly dialling the emergency services on his mobile.
The three of them ran into the living room when Jou had opened the door and were at Yugi's side in an instant.
They saw little scabs on Yugi's arms that looked like he had been pricking himself with a pin and they realised that that was where the blood had come from. There seemed to be a lot of these marks on his arms and the three guessed there were more of them under his cover.
"Get the cover off him." Seto said and Jou pulled it back and they all gasped in shock.
There were more of the pinprick wounds on his body but there were also several large nasty bruises on his chest and legs.
"What the hell is wrong with him?" Jou managed to gasp out looking in horror at his best friend. He grabbed Yugi's hand in an attempt to calm the thrashing teen down a bit.
"We're here for ya buddy." He said.
Honda left the room and returned with a cool damp cloth to hold on Yugi's forehead.
"Seto, call jii-chan." Jou said and Seto dialled a number informing the person who answered that Mr Motou should return home without delay as his grandson was very sick and an ambulance had been called.
The ambulance seemed to take an age when in fact it was only ten minutes but when you wait anxiously for something, every minute feels like an hour. Eventually they heard the sirens and saw the flashing lights of an ambulance as it pulled up outside the Kame Game shop and Seto left to show them in.
They came into the room with some equipment and one look at the boy on the couch told them that he was very ill indeed. They got to work putting a mask on him for oxygen and checking his vital signs.
As the three friends watched, more of the little pinprick bleeds were breaking out and Jou noticed that there were marks on Yugi's stomach and legs that must have been from older pinprick bleeds.
"He's been sick for a while." Jou said "Look." And he pointed to the older marks on Yugi's body. The others gasped.
"Why didn't he say anything?" Seto said looking distraught. "I could have got my personal doctor's to look at him."
"Well you know Yugi," Honda said "he keeps everything to himself."
The ambulance paramedics hooked Yugi up to some fluids and put him on a trolly ready to take him to the local hospital.
"Hang in there Yug, were all with you." Jou said as the small teen was put into the ambulance.
The three of them followed in Seto's limousine and followed the paramedics as they took Yugi to a cubicle in the ER.
They were suddenly ushered out of the area while the doctors performed tests on Yugi how was moaning in his fever as his temperature soared again. A fan was brought to try and cool him down while the tests were carried out.
The three friends outside were pacing the waiting area when Jii-chan came rushing down the corridor having received Seto's urgent message and dashing to the hospital.
"Seto where is he?" he asked panting and all out of breath.
"He's still in the ER, they're doing tests and shoved us out while they did it." As he was speaking a doctor came out from Yugi's cubicle and walked towards them.
"Mr Motou?" He asked looking at the group. Jii-chan stepped forwards.
"I am Sugorukou Motou, Yugi's grandfather, what's wrong with my grandson?"
"I'm sorry we don't know yet however he is in a stable condition and you can see him now. We should have his blood test results in a day or so and we will know more then. We may have to do more tests."
"What do you suspect it is?" Jii-chan demanded noting the doctor's eyes which wern't looking directly at him.
"We won't know anything until the test results come back Mr Motou." Said the doctor effectively ending the conversation.
Jii-chan hurrumphed and strode off in the direction of Yugi's cubicle. The three friends let him go alone, knowing he needed the time and knowing that their turn would come but it didn't stop them worrying. They knew that doctor had suspected something but he just wasn't saying anything. One thing was for sure, they all knew it was serious.
Jii-chan approached Yugi's bed and looked at his grandson with concern etched deeply into his features.
"Yugi." He said softly and when he got no response he said it a little louder "Yugi."
This time there was a response. Yugi opened his eyes and looked into the concerned ones of his Jii-chan.
"Jii-chan?" he whispered and smiled slightly, glad to see him there. "I asked for you." He said and Jii-chan smiled.
"Rest Yugi." He said but Yugi shook his head.
"I want to see Jou and the others first." He said and Jii-chan nodded knowing how important his friends were to him.
"Okay I'll get them." He said and left the cubicle to call in Seto and the others.
They trooped in and smiled at Yugi so he wouldn't know how worried they were.
"Hey Yug how ya doing bud?" Jou asked.
"Um I'm okay I guess but I feel as if I have no strength." Yugi said.
"Yeah you rest Yugi." Seto said his normally cool and collected tone laced with concern for his small friend.
"Thanks Seto I…I think I will." Yugi said and closed his eyes exhausted with everything that had happened to him. As he drifted off he wished he knew what it was that was wrong with him. He had managed to conceal the pinprick bleeds and shortness of breath from everyone but now it couldn't be hidden anymore. He drifted off to sleep as his three best friends and jii-chan watched their faces a mask of concern. Normally Yugi was the most lively one of their group and to see him weak and sick like this was really awful
"Look you guys go home and get some rest." Jii-chan said "I'll stay here and call you if anything happens."
The three teens shuffled their feet.
"We feel like we should stay." Honda said but Jii-chan shook his head.
"There's nothing you can do here, I promise to call as soon as there is any news okay?"
"Okay." They said and left.
"You can all stay at mine." Seto said "that way we'll all be together when Jii-chan calls with news."
"Thanks Seto." Jou said and Seto called his driver on his mobile to pick them up.
"If Yugi needs specialist treatment, I am having him moved to a private hospital." He said his face set and hoping that it wouldn't be necessary.
Jii-chan had fallen asleep in the early hours of the morning and wasn't woken up until the porters came to take Yugi up to a ward. When Yugi was settled and sleeping again, Jii-chan settled down on the bed, which had been put up for him near Yugi.
He didn't wake again until tea was brought for him and breakfast was served. He sipped his tea and sat by Yugi waiting for the doctors to come round. Yugi was sweating and shivering again and Jii-chan held his hand.
"Hang in there Yugi." He whispered as Yugi tossed and turned on the bed.
"How is he?" Said a voice from the doorway and Seto, Honda and Jou walked in.
"He still has a fever." Jii-chan told them just as voices could be heard coming down the hallway. "The doctors are coming I think."
"Oh should we go?" Honda said not wanting to intrude on family privacy.
"No please stay, for Yugi." Jii-chan said and the three nodded and waited for the group of doctors.
The group of white coat clad doctors came in and stood in a group at the end of Yugi's bed. The group looked up expectantly.
"Mr Motou, could we talk to you in private?" One of the doctors said and Jii-chan shook his head.
"Whatever it is, you can tell me in front of my grandson's best friends." He said.
"Very well. Mr Motou, there is no easy way to say this but we suspect Yugi has Leukemia."
TBC…
Yugi: You what?
Yami: where the hell am I in this fic?
Yami Seirei: Yugi don't panic and Yami you're in this later on and I'm saying no more so calm down k?
Yami & Yugi: Yes miss!
Yami Seirei: Very funny
Yami KITG (looks up from game she is playing) WHAT THE HELL ARE YOU DOING GVING YUGI LEUKEMIA?
Yami Seirei: Oh for Ra's sake blinking calm down will ya?
Yami KITG: I won't calm down till I know what happens how could you leave this chapter there?
Yami Seirei: Pretty evil for the hikari aren't I?
Yami KITG: Don't worry hikari I'll get you back don't forget I am the yami hee hee hee.
Yami Seirei: EEP! (runs away)
Yami & Yugi: Hey come back and write!
Yami Seirei: Oh yes right (writes feverishly) happy now?
Yami KITG/Yami/Yugi: Yup!