Disclaimer: Not mine ok?

Yami Seirei: Really sorry this has taken so long to update, I have been moving house and doing other stuff for a few months but now I'm all sorted and planning on plenty of updates maybe even more than before as now I have more time to myself yay!

Yami KITG: Well about time my wayward hikari!

Yami Seirei: I'm so sorry!

Yami: Enough chat! I want an update on this story; I need to know what happens to my little Aibou.

Yugi (mumbling) I'm not little…

Yami: Sorry Aibou I meant it in an endearing way

Yugi: ok

Yami Seirei: Ok I think it's time to carry on with the story…

Someone to save me – chapter 2

'Cancer?' Yugi whispered in a very small voice.

'Yes I'm afraid so.' The doctor said with a hint of sadness and understanding in his voice. 'We will need to begin treatment immediately so I'm afraid we will have to keep you in hospital. We will begin chemotherapy tomorrow morning.'

'Thank you doctor.' Jii chan said his voice choked.

The doctor left and Jii chan turned to see Yugi who was lying on the stark white hospital bed, his hair looking stark against the starched pillows but his face was very pale making him look almost ghost like. His eyes were closed and a single tear ran down his cheek.

Jii chan sat next to his grandson and stroked his face. This was his worst possible nightmare. Here was his grandson dying before his eyes and there was nothing he could do. He frowned surely there must be something he could do?

'Yugi, will you be all right for a few minutes? There is something I need to do.'

Yugi nodded his head; if he was honest he just wanted to be left alone for a while.

Jii chan got up from the bed and went in search of the doctor who had delivered them the devastating news.

Fortunately he did not have to look far. The doctor in question was talking to a patient further down the ward from Yugi's private room. He waited at a respectful distance until he had finished with his patient before approaching him.

The doctor saw him and came over to where he was.

'Was there something else Mr Motou?' He asked

'Yes doctor, I was wondering if there was anything else we can do? I mean what is the procedure from now on?'

'Well we will start his chemotherapy tomorrow morning to try and kill the leukemia cells in his bone marrow, if that fails we can try for a bone marrow transplant. I will place him on the transplant list as a priority case as his particular strain of leukemia is quite severe. I did not want to mention it in front of him but I'm afraid the chemotherapy might not work.'

Jii chan's legs suddenly gave way and he collapsed into a crumpled heap on the floor. The doctor helped him up and put him on a chair. Jii chan buried his face in his hands and his emotions got the better of him. Large tears fell from his eyes and ran through his fingers.

'My poor grandson.' He sobbed and the doctor patted his shoulder trying to reassure him but inside he knew that Yugi's strain of leukemia was so bad that the chemotherapy would only just make him look and feel better. It would not cure him, his only hope was really a bone marrow transplant and Yugi had very little time left before it would be too late for him so he hoped that a suitable donor would be found really soon. He gave Jii chan's shoulder another pat before leaving him alone and returning to his office to add Yugi Motou to the list of people requiring urgent bone marrow donors.

It was a long time before Jii chan could bring himself to move and return to where Yugi now lay staring at the ceiling. He had been crying, as his eyes were red and swollen however Jii chan decided to say nothing of this. He never expected to possibly outlive his grandson he always expected that he would be the one to get old and sick but never his little Yugi-kun.

Jii chan sat next to Yugi's bed and held his hand, maybe a donor would be found soon in the meantime he would just be there for him.

Later on that day Seto and Jou had been to visit Yugi and Jii chan had explained the situation to them both in private. He was not going to reveal to Yugi exactly how ill he was and he hoped that Seto would be able to help out in the search for a donor. With all the billions that the young CEO had, there must be something he could do to help. Seto and Jou had gone home with heavy hearts and they were currently sitting in Seto's private office in his mansion trying to think of what to do.

'Dammit!' Seto swore throwing his wine glass across the room where it shattered in the fireplace. 'I have all these billions and none of it can buy a cure for Yugi, It's not fair!' He cried and Jou put his arms round his lover and held him close.

'I know koi but there might be searches we can do via your computer to speed up the search for a donor and maybe we can make an appeal via your TV network.'

'Not a bad Idea pup.' Seto said giving Jou a squeeze. KC TV was Kaiba Corp's most recent idea and it had really taken off, not just in Japan but all over the world so it would be ideal to make an appeal on.

The following morning while Kaiba was making an appeal to the world to help find a donor for Yugi, The boy in question was receiving his first dose of chemotherapy. It was fed into his arm via an IV and he lay watching it go in. He hoped it would make him feel better, even cure him and he willed it to work as he watched it flow.

When it was all over and the drip removed, The Chemo had made Yugi so tired that he fell into a deep sleep.

Yugi opened his eyes and looked around him. He was in woodland clearing where the sunlight was dancing on the petals of delicate flowers. He looked around him in surprise but as he looked closely at the trees and flowers he could see that the edges seemed to have no real clarity.

"Am I dreaming?" He wondered and began to walk towards the trees but stopped when he saw a blurry shape moving towards him. As the shape came into focus, Yugi's mouth fell open in surprise. The shape was a person and the person looked almost exactly like himself, except for a few extra blonde bangs in his hair and his skin was darker.

The figure walked up to him smiling.

"Hello Yugi."

"Who are you?" Yugi asked the look-a-like stranger in shock, "and how do you know my name?"

"My name is Atemu and I am here to help you. You are very sick Yugi and after hearing the appeal your friend made, I felt compelled to try and help. How this dream has occurred I have no idea but I just know I have to help somehow."

Yugi frowned slightly, wasn't the chemo supposed to be making him better? Why then was Seto appealing for help?

"How sick am I exactly?" Yugi asked not really expecting this strange dream person – Atemu didn't he say his name was? Why did that ring a bell? – to know how sick he was but he thought it worth asking. He also feared an answer but knew it would drive him mad if he didn't find out.

"I don't know Yugi but the appeal was for urgent help so I guess it must be pretty bad. I'm sorry!" He added hastily when Yugi sank to the ground in shock.

They had told him the Chemo would help – even make it better – but the way Atemu was talking made it sound as though he was at death's door or something.

"Am I going to die?" He whispered in a very small voice.

"No you're not Yugi." Atemu said his voice determined. There had to be a reason for this dream and it must be that he would be able to help.

Atemu looked down at his hands and found he could see straight through them.

"Yugi, it's time for me to go, when I wake up I'm going to help you." Atemu's voice faded away and he vanished from the clearing.

Yugi lay on the ground not really caring if he died in his sleep. A dream was a dream wasn't it? Why then should he believe a dream person? How could anyone in this world possibly look like him? Not with his hair anyway! Yugi closed his eyes and hoped that Atemu hadn't been telling the truth and that the Chemo would make him better. He closed his eyes.

When he opened them again, he was back in his own bed in the hospital and Jii Chan was by his side head resting on the bed fast asleep. 'He must have been watching over me while I slept.' Yugi thought and it comforted him.

He lay on his back staring at the ceiling and wondering what was going to happen next, one thing was certain; when Jii Chan awoke he was going to have to answer some tough questions.

Jii Chan eventually woke about half an hour later and rubbing his eyes he looked at Yugi with sadness in his eyes. He looked so pale and thin with the sores still on him. Yugi's eyes were closed and he reached out to stroke his forehead when the eyes snapped open.

"Ah Jii Chan you're awake." Yugi said and Jii Chan noted a slight edge to his grandson's voice.

"Yes Yugi how are you feeling?"

"No better but I have to ask you something and I want an honest answer please."

"What is it?" Jii Chan asked suddenly worried. Yugi never talked coldly to him but there was a distinct icy edge to the way he spoke.

"Exactly how sick am I?" Yugi asked and looked his Jii Chan straight in the eyes. He sighed deeply, how could he tell him the truth?

Yugi could see him struggling and so he decided to put the words in his mouth for him.

"I'm dying aren't I? Unless a donor is found I'm going to die." Jii Chan's whole body slumped and then Yugi knew it was true. Up to that point a little flame of hope had been burning in his heart that the dream might have been a lie and he was going to get better but now it was extinguished.

"It's alright Jii Chan I had a dream that a boy who looked just like me came and told me he was going to help me."

"A dream?" Jii Chan repeated sounding surprised.

"Yes I dreamed a boy named Atemu was going to help me."

Jii Chan's face took on a look of complete shock.

"What name did you just say?" He asked his voice hardly above a whisper.

"Atemu." Yugi repeated wondering why on earth his Jii Chan looked so shocked; in fact he'd turned a frightening shade of white. "Um is everything alright?"

"Yes Yugi, I er, have to go and make a phone call.." and getting up, he practically ran out of the room.

Yugi watched the retreating figure with surprise. What was all that about?

He was still thinking about it when a doctor entered and sat next to him. He was smiling.

"Yugi I believe we may have found you a donor…"

TBC

Yugi: Oooooh Atemu are you going to help me?

Yami Seirei: Of course he is! You think I'd have left him out of the picture altogether?

Yami: Well we never know with you…

Yami Seirei: Hey!

Yugi: Awwww I knew she wouldn't leave you out.

Yami Bakura and Yami Marik: Bah should have left him out baka pharaoh!

Yami KITG: (sennen eye glowing) Watch it you two!

Yami Bakura and Yami Marik: EEP RUUUUUUN!

Yami KITG: Cowards!

Yugi: (Pokes everyone reading this) Pweese review! (Gives you-will-review-puggy-dog-eyes-of-DOOM!)

Everyone: (Chanting monotonously) We will review, we will review…