Chapter 6
Thank you to everyone who read and reviewed any of my stories, I am so happy to see people actually like them. Now on with the story. What do you think? Will he go with Seto, or try and live out his life in his forest home?
Jou walked into the old house and watched his father trim the leaves on a plant he had potted. "Dad? Is something wrong?"
"Son. I have a qeustion for you. A very serious question that requires a straight, serious, answer." His father looked up at him with very dull eyes. "I am dying Jou. I will not survive a week longer, if even three days, so I ask you. What will you do when I am gone?" The tired old man stared at his son, hands shaking violently. He knew his deat hwas coming, but this was too soon. He knew he probably wouldn't make it through the night.
Jou stared at his father, pain stricken. "Tou-san..."
"Don't Tou-san me. You knew all to well it was coming, just not this soon. So what will you do?"
"I-I don't, I don't honestly know." Jou said quietly, silver tears cascading down his face. "I think I will just..."
"He will come with us." Mokuba's voice chimed in as he walked into the room and stood next to Jou, taking hold of his hand. "He can live with us."
"Mokuba?" Jou asked, looking at the little boy who seemingly appeared out of nowhere.
"You can. Nii-Sama already said it is ok!" Mokuba said, smiling a bright smile up at the blonde. "Please say yes, please!"
"Mokuba, I can't just leave my father. He is so sick and needs my..."
"That is enough!" Jou's fathers raspy voice bellowed. "You sit and say I am sick! What about you?" He screamed, trying to stand from his chair. "That tumor is getting worse as we speak, the pain is attacking more often now, and moer violent!" A harsh cough stopped him for a few minutes. "If it is okay with this boys brother. You are going ot live with them! For once in your life Jounouchi Katsuya, think of yourself before others. Stop trying tp carry the worlds weight on your shoulders by yourself and..." Another cough racked his body, sending the man to his knees and blood dripped from his mouth into his hand, splattering with each cough.
"Tou-San!" Jou cried, rushing to his fathers side. "Stop yelling at me, you are making your condition worse!"
"Stop this Jounouchi. You know I won't be living much longer. So try to live out what life you have left. For my sake."
Tears were streaming down Jou's face in large rivers. "No! I lost mom! Then I lost Shizu! I am not losing you too!"
Mokuba watched on before running outside. "Seto help! Jou is crying and his dad is dying!"
Seto looked at his terrified little brother. "What's wrong Mokuba. What are you talking about."
"Jou dad asked us to take him away from here, because Jou is sick and needs to live out his life to the fullest. And his dad is dying and can't take care of him anymore, and, and!"
"Calm down Mokuba. Where are they?"
"Inside." Mokuba said, pointing at the house.
Seto ran into the house, only to find Jou crying over his fathers body. Jou looked up at him with a tear stained face. "T-The stress was too much on his lungs, they gave out on him." He choked out.
Seto felt pity, a twinge of grief and sadness. This man was all this boy had left in the world, and he died in his arms. "Come on Jou. You need to get up." Seto said, kneeling in front of the said boy.
"No! I won't leave him... I won't, I won't, I promise..." He cried softly into the dead mans chest, slowly falling into a restless slumber. seto gently pulled the blonde away from his father and laid him a top of a bed.
"Mokuba?" He looked at his younger brother. "Will you keep an eye on him?" Seto asked, wrapping the dead man up in a blanket and dragging him outside to where he had seen the unmarked graves before. "Sorry old timer. tiem for you to meet your resting place in the ground." Seto said quietly, finding a shovel and starting to dig.
(Time lapse. For my sanity.)
Jou woke slightly and looked around him. He was on someones back, and they were hiking up the trail him and Seto had taken. "Hmm, what happened?"
Seto looked at the blonde propped up on his back as he hiked up the trail leading back to civilization, Mokuba in tow. "Long story Jou. You'll remember soon."
TBC
R/R