A Spiderman Story
Chapter 23 - Attacked
"Wow, cutting it close aren't we?" Mai replied.
"Yeah, I know, luckily they didn't see me…I hope," Yugi said. "Anyway, moving on…"
-Flashback-
"Hey everyone!" Yugi said as he suddenly came running through the front door as he held up the can of cranberry source. "Sorry I'm late!"
"Yugi!" Solomon, Seto, Mokuba and Tea greeted.
"Moto," Gozaburo greeted.
"Sorry, I'm late it's like a jungle out there, I had to beat an old lady with a stick to get these," Yugi replied as everyone laughed and Solomon came up to him.
"Oh, Yugi, thank you," he said. "Now then everyone sit down and we can say grace."
"Hello," Yugi greeted Gozaburo
"Moto," Gozaburo greeted back as they sat down. Gozaburo was at the end, Yugi sat by himself on one side of the table while Tea and Seto sat on other side facing him and Mokuba sat at the other end of the table, while Solomon came over with the turkey. Meanwhile, Yugi spotted Gozaburo, looking Tea up and down, judging her as she felt uncomfortable.
"There we are," Solomon said as he placed the cooked turkey in the middle of the table.
"Oh, it looks delicious!" Mokuba replied as Gozaburo was about to pinch a bit of the yams placed next to him, but Solomon slapped his figures away.
"Gozaburo!" Solomon said as Gozaburo angrily looked up at him. "Will you do the honours?" he asked as Gozaburo nodded, licked his figures and started to sharpen the knives when something suddenly came to Solomon's attention. "Why Yugi, you're bleeding!" Suddenly, Yugi's eyes widened as he look down to see the blood from the cut he got earlier as soaked though his sleeve on his white shirt. Gozaburo's face immediately dropped as he saw the blood stained cut on Yugi's shirt.
"Oh, uh, uh, yeah, I…" Yugi quickly said trying to make up a believable story. "I stepped off a kerb and…got clipped by on of those bike messengers."
"Oh, let me see," Solomon replied as he went over to Yugi as pulled down his sleeve to reveal the huge red cut on his arm, Gozaburo's eyes immediately widened. "Oh my goodness! That looks awful!"
"It's nothing, really!"
"I'll get the first aid kit," Solomon said as he went off to find it. "Then we'll say grace. First is the boys first thanksgiving in this apartment and we are going to do things properly."
"How'd you say that happened?" Gozaburo asked with his eyes fixed on Yugi's cut.
"Bike messenger…" Yugi nervously replied. "Knocked me down." Gozaburo looked around in confusion as if there was something on his mind and put down the knifes.
"Uh, if you'll excuse me," he said as he got up and headed for the door. "I've got to be going."
"Why?" Seto asked.
"Something has some to my attention," Gozaburo asked as he put his coat back on and headed for the door.
"Are you all right?"
"I'm fine, just fine. Thank you, Mr Moto, everyone," Gozaburo said before he went out he door and Seto immediately followed him.
"Where are you going?" Seto's voice could be heard from outside as Yugi and Tea still sat at the table trying not to listen, along with Mokuba. "I planned this whole thing so that you can meet Tea, and now you have to leave?"
"I gotta go," Gozaburo's voice said.
"This girl is important to me!"
"Seto, please, look at her! You think a woman like that's sniffing around because she likes your personality?" Tea suddenly looked up from her lap as he said this.
"What are you saying?
"My wife was beautiful too. They're all beautiful! Until they're snarling after your trust fund like a pack of ravening wolves!" Tea's mouth suddenly dropped in shock as she looked back and forth at the front door that Seto and Gozaburo stood outside of.
"You're wrong about her."
"A word to the not-so-wise about your little girlfriend. Do what you need to with her. Then broom her fast!" Tea closed her mouth and looked down sadly at her lap again. Meanwhile, Yugi, who was still sat across from her, as he was about to go over to her, but suddenly, Seto came back into the room.
"Thanks for sticking up for me, Seto!" Tea angrily replied as she stood up and grabbed her coat.
"You heard?" Seto replied
"Everyone hard that creep!"
"That creep is my father! If I'm luckily I'll become half of what he is! So just keep your lid on stuff you don't understand!" Seto yelled as Tea looked away from him and walked towards the door.
"Seto Kaiba!" Solomon said as Tea stopped at the door and turned around to look at them.
"I'm sorry Grandpa Moto," she replied before she went out of the door.
Later, after the day ended and Yugi, Solomon, Seto and Mokuba had to finish the thanksgiving fest themselves. Seto took Mokuba back home and even dropped Solomon off along the way. Leaving Yugi alone in his apartment with Yami, in their pyjamas and a hot cup of coco, waiting for their roommate to return.
Yami's sprit sat beside Yugi as he looked down Yugi's arm at the bandage that covered the cut.
/--You know, I sometimes wonder what you exactly get up to during our time apart--/ Yami mind-linked to him as Yugi chuckled. Suddenly, the phone on the kitchen top started to ring just as Yugi was about to take a slip form his mug. Yugi then stood up when his mug in still in his hand, walked over and picked the phone up.
"Hello," Yugi greeted to the person on the other end of the line as he then listened for a while. But suddenly, Yugi's eyes widened, his mouth dropped open and he let go of his mug in, which smashed into piece on the floor. This instantly grabbed the attention of Yami who still sat on the sofa. After Yugi put the phone down, he quickly grabbed his jacket and ran out the door.
/--Yugi! --/
Yugi charged through the hospital doors, still wearing his pyjamas under his blue jacket and the millennium Puzzle around his neck. Suddenly, he heard his grandfather's moans and went onto the hospital room to see his grandfather lying on the bed in shock with a load of doctors and nurses running around him.
"Grandpa!" Yugi responded as turned to one of the nurses. "Is he okay? I'm his grandson, what happened!"
"I'm sorry you'll have to leave right now!" the nurse said as she forced Yugi out of the hospital room and out into the corridor.
"Those eyes! Those horrible yellow eyes!" Solomon yelled out before the door was shut in Yugi's face. Yugi turned and leaned up against the corridor wall trying to figure out what was going on. Suddenly, Yugi looked up in shock.
"He knows who I am!" Yugi whispered to himself.
-End Flashback-
"Oh Ra! He knows? How'd that happen?" Mai asked.
"I was not quite sure at the time," Yugi replied.
"But you know now?"
"Yeah, but you will find out about that later."
"Wow, poor Grandpa."
"Yeah, I remember I sat with him all night that night as he slept. Then I had a visitor…"
-Flashback-
"Will he be okay?" Tea asked as she entered the room with some flowers.
"He's gonna be fine, he's been sleeping all day," Yugi said as he got up to greet her. "Thanks for coming."
"Of course," Tea replied as she set the flowers down on the table as looked at Yugi's grandfather.
"How are you? I mean, are you okay after the other night?"
"Yeah, I'm fine. I…I just felt bad about leaving your grandfather."
"Have you talked to Seto?"
"He called me. I haven't called him back. The fact is…" Tea said she walked around Solomon bed towards the window, stopped and turned around to face Yugi again. "I'm in love with somebody else."
"You are?" Yugi said as he walked over to her.
"At least I think I am," Tea replied just as Solomon opened his eyes a little. "It's not the right time to talk about it."
"No, no, go on. Would I know his name, this guy?"
"You'll think I'm a stupid little girl with a crush!"
"You can trust me."
"It's funny, he saved my life twice, and I've never even seen his face!"
"Oh, him," Yugi replied as he chuckled a little bit. He then sat down on a chair.
"You're laughing!" Tea said as she sat down in the opposite chair.
"No, no, I understand. He is extremely cool after all!"
"But do you think it's true, all the things they say about him?"
"No, no, not Spiderman. Not a chance in the world. I know him a little bit, I'm sort of his unofficial photographer."
"Has he mentioned me?"
"Yeah!"
"Well, what'd he say?"
"Uh, I said…he…he asked me…" Yugi nervously replied as he tried to find the right words. "What I thought about you."
"And what did you say?"
"I said, um, "Well, Spiderman, the…the great thing about Tea is that…when you look in her eyes and she's looking back in yours, everything feels…not quite normal, because you feel stronger…but yet weaker at the same time. You feel excited and at the same time terrified. The truth is…you don't know what you feel, except you know what kind of man you wanna be. It's as if you've…reached the unreachable and you weren't quite ready for it."
"You said that?" Tea whispered as Yugi's words made her speechless, yet happy at the same time.
"Well, something like that," Yugi replied as Solomon closed his eyes again with a smile on his face. Tea then put her hand on top of Yugi's hand and smiled sweetly at him. Yugi looked up and smiled back at her. But suddenly, the doors opened and Seto and Mokuba walked in with flowers of their own. Yugi immediately pulled his hand away from Tea's as soon as he saw him.
"Hey," Yugi greeted as Seto just stood there staring at the two of them, probably with all sorts running through his head.
-End Flashback-
"Ooh, I bet that awkward," Mai responded.
"Oh yeah!" Yugi replied. "But once everyone left, I fell asleep beside Grandpa for a while, but then…"
-Flashback-
"Wake up Yugi," Solomon said as he shock Yugi's shoulder. Yugi immediately rinsed his head with his hair all messed up and bags under his eyes. "You'd better go home, you look awful."
"But I don't like to leave you here," Yugi replied.
"Oh but I'm safe here."
"Is there any thing I can get for you?"
"You do to much, a job, spending time with me, plus you will be going back to school soon…you're not Superman, you know!" Solomon said as Yami, whose sprit sat beside Yugi laughed out loud as Yugi chuckled a little bit. "A smile! I haven't seen one of those on your face since Tea was here."
"Hey, you were supposed to be asleep!" Yugi replied as Solomon chuckled a bit.
"You know you where about six years old when Tea's family moved next door. And when she got out of the car and you saw her for the first time, you grabbed hold of me and said 'Grandpa! Grandpa, is that an angel?'"
"Gee, did I say that!"
"You see did!"
"Well…Seto's in love with her now. She's still his girl."
"Isn't that up to her?"
"She doesn't really know who I am."
"Because you won't let her! You're so mysterious all the time. Tell me, would it be so dangerous to let Tea know how much you care? Everybody else knows!" Suddenly, Yugi's face dropped before he jumped up, took off his puzzle and out it on the bed.
"I'll be right back!" he said before running out the door.
"But…" Solomon replied, but Yugi had already left.
Out in the corridor, Yugi ran up to a pay phone, put money in it, dialled a number and waited as it rung.
"Come on, pick up!" he whispered.
"Hi…" Tea voice finally came.
"Hey Tea…" Yugi began before he was cut off.
"…It's me. Sing your song at time beep," Tea answering machine continued before it beeped.
"Tea, it's Yugi. Are you there? Hello? You there? Well, I…I'm just calling to check up on you. Will you call me when you get in, okay? All right, well…just don't go up any dark alleys…" Yugi said into the machine before the phone suddenly got picked up. "Hello? Tea?" Yugi asked, but suddenly he heard familiar cackling coming from the other end of the phone.
"Can Spiderman come out to play?" the voice said as Yugi's face turned serious.
"Where is she!"
Author's notes: Whoa, that was a long chapter, I hoped you liked it. As you probably know (if you've seen the movie) that this story is going to end soon. But don't worry my fellow readers! A new story, made by me, called Spiderman 1.5 it just around the corner as soon as this one is finished!
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