I have a problem; I'll admit it. I have exactly zero reading comprehension skills. Even though I read my chapters over like fifty times they still have really obvious spelling and grammatical mistakes in them, I know its sad, I'm horrible. (cries) So if you're reading and you see really obvious mistakes, know that as I'm reading them later, I cringe ten times worse that you do.
I really should have updated last week, two weeks is too long since, you know sincethe story is already written. I'm working on my next one while updating this one. Last weekend I had so much homework, this weekend I do too, I guess it never stops. Then my Internet wasn't working all week. I hate technology.
Anywho, here's next chapter, its really long, lots of stuff happens in it. Most of it was inspired by the time in my life where my friends were obsessed with chess for a while. I personally can't play it for shit cause I get bored too easily.
This chapter brought to you by the insane rules of chess (no I didn't make any of them up), Bingo Hats and the fact that I really should stop trying to be funny.
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Chyaputa 3: Spell of Hate
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"I said, it's your turn," Kaiba repeated a little more firmly this time, he was starting to get irritated.
'What's going on?' Kaiba thought to himself. 'A minute ago Yugi looked panicked but now... it's like he's different?'
Yugi's hand drifted forward, as lifeless as if he were a puppet attached by strings. He moved his last knight away from protecting his king and into the middle of the board.
"What? Is that you're move, Yugi?" Kaiba asked coldly. "You've just left you're king open for checkmate."
"It's you're turn Kaiba," Yugi answered, still face revealing no emotion.
Kaiba grinned, surely Yugi had gone crazy. "I would have been satisfied with just a surrender but if this is better for you that's fine with me."
"Yugi," Jounouchi sounded worriedly. Yugi didn't answer.
Kaiba scoffed and moved his queen to take another one of Yugi's pawns, closing off any space for the king to move. It was trapped in a corner of the board with two pawns on one side and Yugi's own rook behind it.
"Checkmate," Kaiba announced, blue eyes glowing smugly. "Looks like I win."
"I wouldn't be so sure about that," Yugi interrupted, his eyes sharpened.
"What are you talking about?" Kaiba scoffed disdainfully. "Do I need to remind you about the rules of chess? There is nowhere for your king to go without-"
"What about this?" Yugi asked and switched the king's and the rook's positions.
"What?" Kaiba and Jounouchi exclaimed.
"Can you do that?" Jounouchi asked staring at the board, confused.
"Of course you can, its called Castling," Yugi commented still staring at Kaiba who was glaring angrily at the board. "It's a common move, right Kaiba?"
Kaiba lifted his head up, his emotions under control again. "You are only prolonging your defeat," he answered and moved his queen out of Yugi's pieces.
"Why'd he do that?" Jounouchi asked puzzled why Kaiba would retreat.
"He wants to keep his queen," Yugi explained coolly, dark eyes narrowed. "If he had taken my rook my king could take her and if he stayed there my rook could have taken her my next turn."
"I don't need you commenting on my strategies, Yugi," Kaiba growled irritated. "It's your move." The game continued but more intensely than before. When Kaiba tried to set traps for Yugi's pieces Yugi would set traps of his own, making the number of pieces Kaiba had lost equal to his. Both players were at the end of their nerves, both waiting to see what the other one would do.
'He's totally different than before,' Kaiba thought for the hundredth time watching the younger teen contemplating his next move, a flash of intelligence glinting behind his sharp eyes. 'He's so much more confident and serious...' Yugi moved his pawn to capture another one of Kaiba's knights. Now Kaiba had one pawn, a queen, bishop, and a rook left. Yugi had only a rook, a knight and three pawns.
Suddenly Kaiba chuckled. Yugi looked up.
"What is it now, Kaiba?" Jounouchi growled.
"You are indeed stronger than I anticipated, Yugi. This has certainly been entertaining, but it ends here," he explained smirking. Kaiba moved his queen diagonally across the board and took out Yugi's last knight that had been protecting his king. Yugi growled in frustration, fist clenching. "Now you have no defenses"
"We'll see about that," Yugi commented mildly. He moved his rook and took Kaiba's bishop.
"You think that bishop makes a difference when I can just take your king!" Kaiba scoffed laughing. He moved his queen to draw Yugi's king into a corner.
Yugi smirked, unmoved by Kaiba's threats. "You only have your eye on the goal, you should take better care of your companions," he explained as he took Kaiba's rook.
"Nothing you say matters," Kaiba answered smugly moving his queen to cut off Yugi's King again. "Check."
'I am going to win.' he thought excitedly, hands nearly trembling with anticipation.
"You should mind my advice," Yugi said. As he moved his king behind his pawn.
Kaiba grinned. Now Yugi's King was closed off in the corner, he moved his queen in again. "Check!" he announced. 'One more move and I've won!'
Yugi smirked. "If you have learned nothing from this game Kaiba know this: always protect your companions and never underestimate the power of even the smallest piece!" He announced and took Kaiba's queen with his pawn.
"What!" Kaiba exclaimed furiously.
'He was drawing me to his pawn all along!'
"Awesome!" Jounouchi cried, jumping out of his chair.
"It's your turn, Kaiba," Yugi taunted coolly, grinning.
"Damn you," Kaiba growled and moved his King away from Yugi's pieces. Now that Yugi had taken his last rook and bishop, the only pieces Kaiba had left were his King and one lonesome pawn.
"But that's not the only trap I've set for you," Yugi said. Kaiba looked over at his end of the table and his eyes widened in shock.
"What!" Just one square away from the end of the board stood the last two of Yugi's pawns.
"It's too late," Yugi commented and moved his one of his pawns to the edge of the board. "And now." He took his own queen from Kaiba's prisoners and replaced it with his pawn on the board, grinning. "I've got my queen back."
Kaiba growled staring desperately at the field. His fingers shook as they moved his own king uselessly next to his pawn. 'This can't... this can't...' he thought frantically. Yugi stepped his other pawn up to the end of Kaiba's row and added yet another queen to his forces.
"Your move, Kaiba," Yugi taunted. "You can delay the end of this game as long as you want, but either way, you lose!" he announced smugly.
'I lost... I lost...' Kaiba stared at the field hopelessly. 'I can't, I couldn't..."
"Alright! You won!" Jounouchi cried grabbing Yugi's head and putting it into a headlock again. "You beat Kaiba! You beat Kaiba!"
In an instant, almost as though it had never happened, Yugi's eyes lost their intensity, his cool proud stance immediately relaxed.
"Jou-nou-chi-" Yugi choked, round purple eyes popping. "I- can't- breathe…"
"Oh, sorry…" Jounouchi apologized releasing him again. "Man Yugi, you are too awesome!"
"Thanks Jounouchi-kun," Yugi gasped massaging his throat.
"Awww, you're welcome!" the blonde said beaming, rubbing his nose.
"No, I mean it," Yugi said seriously. "For cheering me on and everything you said…"
"No, no, thank you," Jounouchi corrected pointing at his friend meaningfully. "You BEAT Kaiba! That's enough to make my whole month! HA!" Yugi turned back to the game. Kaiba was still sitting there staring at the board, his mouth and eyes wide with shock.
"Good game, Kaiba-kun," Yugi said presenting his hand to the other teen. Kaiba didn't move. Yugi frowned. "Kaiba-kun? Are you okay?" he asked worried.
"Leave him!" Jounouchi advised giving Kaiba a cruel lofty expression. "He's just being a sore loser," he sneered nastily.
"Okay…" Yugi said uncertainly still staring at Kaiba's bent head.
"Come on! Let's tell everybody about Kaiba's downfall!" he cried cheerfully jumping up and down. "Yugi beat Kaiba! Yugi beat Kaiba!" he sang skipping across the room.
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There it was again. Yugi swerved his head around, spraying toothpaste around his bathroom walls. He looked but there was nothing there. Yugi sighed and spit the last of his toothpaste into the sink.
'I could have sworn I saw something…' He shrugged at himself in the mirror, put his toothbrush and toothpaste on the sink and turned off the light in the bathroom.
'I must be imagining things…' he thought as he climbed into bed and stared up at the ceiling. Without warning the thought of Kaiba popped into his head again. He had looked pretty bad after Yugi had beat him in chess.
'I hope he's okay…' Of course Yugi couldn't even remember the chess game real well in his head. What had happened anyway? Kaiba had looked as sort of lifeless, like a zombie or something.
"I think too much," Yugi muttered and turned over in his bed to get more comfortable. "Good night…" he breathed and his mind drifted.
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Colorless clouds obscured his vision as the smallest puff of wind swirled him round in circles. He felt like a leaf trying to get to the ground safely but the ground never seemed to come. Suddenly and large blast of air picked him up and he soared upwards. Light flashed and then it suddenly got very dark. If he squinted he thought the area around him looked like a hallway.
'I wonder where I am…' he thought as he began to drift again. But this time it seemed like he was drifting towards something, like the air currents around him were pulling him forward. The hallway turned and a set of very familiar double doors appeared at the end of it.
'Could I be in the hospital?' he wondered. A sound interrupted his thoughts, quiet at first then growing slowly louder as he neared the lunchroom. He passed through the room's closed doors without feeling them at all. He could hear the sound clearly now; it was somebody crying.
All the lights were off in the lunch hall and there wasn't a single person to be seen yet something in the corner of the room irresistibly drew Yugi's gaze. There was a set of electronic doors that Jounouchi said lead to the Red Wing. The crying grew louder; the sound was coming from behind the doors. The doors themselves seemed like they were pulsing. An eerie ringing like wind chimes was echoing through the air, calling Yugi to come closer.
Yugi's hand reached out towards the door.
No! Aibou stop! a voice cried out. A feeling like a pair of hands clutched his shoulders. Don't touch that door!
'Someone's crying…' Yugi protested weakly. The hands on Yugi's shoulders were pulling him back.
Aibou come back! Come back!
There was a swishing feeling in Yugi's stomach and Yugi was swept up into colorless clouds once again.
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Wam!- and Yugi's face meet the cold hard floor. His legs, tangled up in his blankets, soon followed with another dull thud onto the floor. Yugi groaned and peeled his sticky face off the floor. His whole body was covered in cold sweat. He turned around and searched the barely lit room.
Hadn't there been someone there? Hadn't he heard someone calling him? He thought he had heard someone. Yugi rubbed his bruised shoulder confused. He thought he had felt someone's hand there.
'What a strange dream...' he thought and dragged himself back into bed.
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"Hey Yugi!" Jounouchi cried from a table across the room and waved. Yugi waved back and rushed over to the table to where Honda, Otogi and Jounouchi were all sitting.
"Good morning Jounouchi-kun!" Yugi greeted sitting down next to the teen. "Honda-kun, Otogi-kun," he added. The other two nodded in greeting.
"Honda take that ridiculous thing off your head!" Otogi ordered continuing a conversation they had been having before Yugi had arrived. Honda gripped the thing on his head possessively.
"No way! I played four straight hours of bingo to get this!" The thing the two had been talking about was a plastic golden colored crown that looked like one of those cheep prizes they gave you at carnivals. Honda had gone one step further and, having found a marker, had written on the front in large shaky letters, "BINGO KING".
"I'm never taking it off," he muttered dreamily. Otogi rolled his eyes.
"I'm surprised it can fit on your head with that disgusting ship's bow already taking up so much room," Otogi muttered darkly, twirling a lock of silky black hair between his fingers.
"Dude! You did NOT just insult my hair!"
"Sooooo Yugi," Jounouchi said completely ignoring Otogi's and Honda's squabblings once again. "How are you on this bright and beautiful day," Jounouchi asked cheerfully, his eyes sparkling. Yugi looked uneasily back at him. This was definitely not the normal Jounouchi.
"Jounouchi-kun, are you okay?" Yugi asked concerned.
"I'm great! Wonderful! Never been better!" the blonde answered enthusiastically, grinning almost drunkenly.
"Don't worry about him, Yugi," Otogi advised him.
"He's just happy Kaiba didn't come back to his room last night," Honda explained tiredly as Jounouchi hummed jovially across the table.
"And what a great night it was too!" Jounouchi exclaimed. "I had the whole room to myself! That must have been the best sleep I've had in- well, since I've been here!"
"Why didn't he come back to his room?" Yugi asked urgently, ignoring Jounouchi's interruption.
"He's was in the game room ever since you beat him, staring at the game board, not moving at all. They said he looked like he was possessed or something," Otogi explained.
"I heard they had to drag him out of there after dinner and brought him to the doctors to see if there was anything wrong with him," Honda said.
"Oh, there's something wrong with him," Jounouchi interrupted knowledgeably tapping his forehead. "But it's all up here."
"That's for sure!" Honda agreed laughing.
"Possessed...?" Yugi wondered.
'Did something happen to Kaiba too?' he thought staring emptily down at the table, a sick feeling of dread consuming his stomach.
"Ahhh, come on, Yugi," Jounouchi groaned, "You don't feel sorry for him do you?" Jounouchi asked suspiciously. "Kaiba's a bastard! It was about time someone knocked him off his high arrogant ass!" he stated proudly and began to hum again.
"Good morning everyone!" Anzu greeted in her white nurse's uniform as she brought up the food and medication cart. "How is everybody?" she asked cheerful as ever.
"Good morning, Anzu-chan!" Jounouchi exclaimed overly enthusiastic. "Isn't today wonderful and I must say you're looking very beautiful today!"
"Oh, thank you, Jounouchi," she answered just as cheerfully. "And what makes you so happy this morning?" she asked, passing out food trays.
"Kaiba spending the night in the hospital room," Jounouchi answered dreamily.
"Ahh," she said understanding. "Don't worry, they released him this morning!" she explained.
"What? Already?" Jounouchi cried outraged.
"Really?" Yugi asked a little more cheerfully.
'Maybe it was nothing serious…' Yugi thought, gratefully, relaxing back into his chair with relief.
"And I was looking forward to another relaxing night too…" Jounouchi grumbled darkly.
"Turns out there really wasn't really anything wrong that we could see," she explained.
"How fortunate…" Jounouchi muttered sarcastically.
"Well, here are you're meds," she said passing little plastic cups to all four of the occupants of the table. Yugi stared gloomily down in his cup.
"Don't worry it's only a standard anti-depressant, nothing poisonous I promise you," she explained giving Yugi a little wink. He blushed red at her gesture and nodded nervously. "Oh yeah, I almost forgot!" Anzu reached into her pocket and pulled out a folded piece of paper as Yugi swallowed his pills. "Your schedule!" she exclaimed triumphantly and handed it to him. Yugi looked at it.
"What have you got today?" Otogi asked politely leaning across the table.
"Group therapy," Yugi answered confused.
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By the time Yugi, Jounouchi, Honda, and Otogi had found the room where they're session was supposed to be held, the rest of the group had arrived. Yugi recognized several unpleasant faces including Ushio, Keith, and two teenagers that Jounouchi, Honda, and Otogi had pointed out to him as good people to avoid, Haga and Ryuzaki.
"Oh goody," Honda muttered moodily, "All the freaks are here." No sooner had he said so then another person walked into the room, shoving Jounouchi out of the way and onto the floor as he passed.
"Jounouchi-kun!" Yugi exclaimed bending down to see if his friend was okay.
"Jerk! What the hell was that-" Jounouchi cried then looked up to see Kaiba's threatening back strutting away. "Kaiba, that bastard…" he growled jumping back on his feet in rage.
"Calm down, Jounouchi," Honda hissed jumping in front of him. "We don't need another scene here too."
"I wasn't going to make a scene!" Jounouchi growled still glaring at Kaiba's back.
"Yeah right," Otogi said doubtfully.
"Well, he would of deserved it!" the blonde muttered darkly as they took their seats. Just then the door to room opened and the physiatrist walked in.
"Good morning everyone," Ishtar greeted the circle of patients.
"Good morning Ishtar-sensei," the group chorused unenthusiastically.
"Ishtar-sensei?" Yugi spoke confused. "I thought she didn't do group sessions?" Yugi hissed to Otogi quietly.
Otogi shrugged. "She's never been here before." A few seats away Jounouchi's anger only increased with the arrival of the doctor.
"What the hell is she doing here?" he asked scowling.
"Momo-sensei came down with a cold last night so I'll be conducting our session today," the doctor explained sitting down in a chair in the circle. "Today we have a new member, he just came two days ago but he's already fitting in quite well," the doctor introduced, motioning for Yugi to stand up. Yugi stumbled to his feet nervously and all eyes turned toward him. Jounouchi and Honda gave him a comforting thumbs up.
"Just say your name," Ishtar instructed kindly.
"Um, hi… I'm Yugi," Yugi said, smiling nervously.
"Hi Yugi," the rest of the group repeated monotonously.
"Is there anything you would like to tell us about yourself, Yugi? Any hobbies?"
"Well, I like games," Yugi answered shakily. Out of the corner of his eye, Yugi saw Kaiba stiffen in his chair.
"He likes games? What kind of lame answer is that?" Keith muttered. Haga started giggling, disturbingly like the skull kid, Kozuka.
"Well, that's nice Yugi, anything else- yes, Mai?"
"Yeah, I have a question," the golden haired woman named Mai spoke hotly. "Why aren't there any other female patients in this hospital? Why are there only boys? And I am the only one who notices this?" she questioned outraged.
"Okay, any other questions for Yugi?" Ishtar questioned.
"Yeah, I got one," the teenager Ryuzaki said, raising his hand. "What's you're problem?"
"Ah, excuse me?" Yugi asked politely, confused.
"What have you got? Why are you here?" he accused rudely.
"Oh, um…" he glanced at Ishtar who was busily writing something down on her chipboard. "…ah, I don't what it's called…"
"Oh!" Ryuzaki said loftily, giving sideways glances to his neighbors, "So, you're in denial."
"No, that's not it! I really don't-" he tried to explain, looking frantically around the circle for support.
"Oh come on, don't be so immature," Mai snapped sharply. "We've all accepted our problems, now it's your turn." Other people around the circle were nodded in agreement.
"It's all right to be nervous, Yugi," Ishtar said sympathetically. "This is a safe environment. No one here is going to judge you or-"
"But Ishtar-sensei," Yugi protested. "You never told me-"
"Alright then, how about we have someone else go first to make you feel more comfortable," Ishtar interrupted looking around the circle motioning for Yugi to sit down. Yugi sighed in defeat and slumped down in his chair, feeling very flustered. "How about you, Jounouchi?" Ishtar suggested. "Why don't you show Yugi how it's done?"
Jounouchi grumbled something incoherently under his breath and slid further down in his seat.
"Jounouchi? Is there something you would like to say to the group?" Ishtar said expectantly, tapping her pen on the edge of her clipboard.
"You can't make me talk," he muttered darkly eyes narrowing.
"And why is that?" she asked her deep blue eyes surveying him harshly.
"I know what's really going on in this hospital, you sick cow!" the blonde accused pointing his finger dramatically at the doctor. "I know what you're up to!"
"Oh god, not again," Honda moaned putting his head in his hands. Many similar groans were echoed through out the room and several patients looked like they were ready to turn around and smack their own head against the wall or better yet, Jounouchi's.
"And what I am up to, Jounouchi?" Ishtar asked, not amused.
"Don't pretend you don't know what I'm talking about!" the blonde demanded standing up now. "You're doing experiments on aliens in the Red Wing, don't deny it!"
"Not those damn aliens again!" Keith complained loudly to Ushio who nodded in agreement. Ryuzaki and Haga began to snicker evilly next to them. Mai scoffed and threw her head back in disgust causing her long hair to fall in golden cascades down her back.
Ishtar-sensei just stared at her patient irritated. "Jounouchi, you and I will have a talk later. Would someone else like to go? How about you, Otogi? Would you like to give it a try?" Otogi didn't answer; he was too busy looking at himself in the reflection of the window.
"Ah, I'm so beautiful I scare myself," said Otogi to himself, flipping his hair back and not looking like he had heard Ishtar-sensei at all.
"Get a room," groaned Keith.
"Hmph. He's not any prettier than me," murmured Mai under her breath.
"I heard that!" Otogi shouted, now on his feet and pointing at her. "Take it back!"
"I can't take back the truth," Mai said pompously also standing up.
"Both of you sit down," Ishtar-sensei instructed severely. Yugi noticed that she was beginning to look slightly distressed.
"You can't silence me!" Jounouchi shouted at the top of his lungs still standing up. "You can't hide the truth! I'll reveal you and your whole sick scheme to the world!"
"Oh would you shut the fuck up about those damn aliens!" Mai screamed.
"Make me, bitch!" Jounouchi snapped. "Until my brethren are free to live in peace and until every one of them has escaped from the selfish clutches of society, I shall not rest-"
"Oh, I'll MAKE you rest," Mai threatened and grabbed the chair she had been sitting in and lifted it over her head.
"I SAID SHUT UP!" Ishtar-sensei shrieked banshee-like. The room went deathly silent. "Mai put that chair down! Jounouchi, Otogi, shut up! And all of you, sit, down, NOW!" she ordered, breathing heavily.
"And I am too prettier," Otogi muttered under his breath. Ishtar-sensei gave him a death glare and Otogi meekly sat down again.
"Now Mai, Otogi," Ishtar lectured sharply. "It is not your place to judge other people's opinions or the way they might choose to express themselves. Don't you think it's each person's opinion of himself or herself that matters, not what other people think? And it is he or she who should construct the best way to express their opinions?"
"Yes," Mai and Otogi answered, grudgingly, crossing their arms over their chests, shooting dark looks at each other.
"Alright, now that that's over with lets try something else," the doctor suggested folding her hands in her lap over her clipboard trying to reclaim her composure. "Who would like to share with the group something they did yesterday?" Haga raised his hand eagerly. "Yes Haga, what did you do yesterday?" the doctor asked.
"Yesterday," he announced squeakily, pushing his think-brimmed yellow glasses further up on his nose. "When I went outside for recess I found these," he explained and reaching into his pocket and pulling out a hand full of bugs and spiders.
Mai screeched and slid her chair back as far back as it would go. Ushio and Keith both roared with laughter.
"THAT'S DISGUSTING!" Mai shrieked her chair up against the wall.
"Haga!" Ishtar-sensei warned harshly, her left eyebrow twitching as though she too would have liked to run away screeching at the sight of Haga's collection. "What did I tell you about keeping those things outside!" she ordered sternly. Haga bent his head disappointed and stuffed his collection back in his pockets, muttering to himself as he sat back down.
"Alright," the doctor continued her voice strained. "Who else would like to say something?"
"To think such an expert scientist is having so much trouble with a group of children, it almost laughable," a cold voice spoke from a corner of the circle. All eyes turned and locked onto the ominous figure that had spoke. Jounouchi growled darkly under his breath.
"Is there something you would like to say to the group, Kaiba?" the doctor asked mildly, ignoring the teen's last comment. Kaiba glared at Ishtar, eyes as cold as ice.
"That's the second time this session has gotten out of your hands today. I guess you're not much of a professional." Ishtar didn't answer. After a few seconds of silence Jounouchi spoke up.
"You still act like you run the place don't you, ya stuck up bastard?" he commented leaning back so that the front legs of the chair lifted off the ground, looking rather smug. "But you still can't deny the fact the Yugi kicked your ass. Maybe you're not so high and mighty after all, rich boy."
"What? Yugi beat up Kaiba!" Ryuzaki exclaimed unbelievingly.
"No, idiot! He beat him in chess!" Jounouchi corrected irritated. Kaiba's pupils visibly shrank. The people around the circle started to whisper.
"Yugi actually beat Kaiba? Kaiba lost!"
"Isn't Kaiba like the national champion or something…?"
"God, it's just chess…" Mai muttered. "Not like its anything important."
"Jounouchi-kun," Yugi protested, looking from Jounouchi to Kaiba frantically.
"Sorry Yugi, but that guy had it coming," said Jounouchi still staring at Kaiba with such vivid hate it almost scared Yugi.
Kaiba stood up enraged, his fists clenched in anger. "Do you know who I am!" he cried furiously, unstable blue eyes fixed upon the doctor. "I'm Kaiba Seto!"
"I know that very well," said Ishtar mildly again looking up from he clipboard. "But in this hospital you are nothing more than one of my patients."
"And that gives you the right to humiliate me!"
"This isn't humiliation Kaiba, we are helping you."
"Don't lie to me! I know you're being paid to keep me in here!" he yelled.
The room went deathly silent and all eyes turned to Ishtar-sensei. Jounouchi straightened in his chair with a scowl with a look like he would have been happy if both of his worst enemies would finish each other off.
"Not so calm now, are you?" said Kaiba triumphantly, breathing heavy, "now that you've been exposed." He was grinning like a madman, his normally neat brown hair slightly ruffled.
The doctor stood up, more cool and lofty than ever. Kaiba was taken back.
"Tell me, Kaiba," she said cautiously, "Are these more of your hallucinations? Honestly, the only reason why you have stayed in this hospital so long is that you refuse to seek help for your problems. You deny your sickness and now you make up senseless reasons as to why you are being kept here-"
"There's nothing wrong with me!" he shouted outraged.
"You forget, Kaiba, I hold the key to your freedom, they will not release you until I say you have made a full recovery," she continued holding up her clipboard tauntingly, her eyes narrow. "And as far as I can see your condition hasn't changed sense you came here. Honestly, you haven't made any effort to even start a recovery. Personally, I don't see any reason for you to go for quite some time."
Kaiba was pale, staring at Ishtar with hopeless empty expression, much like the one he had worn after Yugi had beaten him at chess. Yugi looked between the patient and doctor nervously.
'What's going on? How can Ishtar be so cold? Why is she doing this?' Kaiba bent his head, his body shaking with anger and frustration. The whole group had their eyes on him. Ishtar, still smiling coldly before him, sat down in her chair once again and brought her ever-faithful clipboard to her eyes.
"Now if you would sit down we shall continue-" but she was interrupted by a loud slam as Kaiba, in a blind rage, stormed out of the room, the door swinging violently in his wake.
There was silence. Members of the circle glanced at one another nervously. Jounouchi slid further down in his seat glaring at the floor, muttering to himself again. Yugi's eyes were still fixed upon the door.
"Alright!" she continued as though there had been no interruption. "Let's continue with what people did yester-" The hospital bell echoed down the corridors.
Ishtar sighed. "Fine! Everybody leave!" she cried waving all the patients out hurriedly. "Come on, move it! Go do- Things! Yes Haga, take those bugs with you. No I don't want them!" she shooed them away looking distressed.
Yugi, Jounouchi, Honda and Otogi, all looking very confused and unnerved, left the room as fast as they could.
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The whole Group Therapy thing was my original idea for this fic before I started going in a totally different direction, so I felt like I had to keep it,you don't have toremember any of the new charcters introduced in that scene, they're not important.Yes, I know I'm not funny, deal with it. YAY KAIBA! He's actually important to the plot now! WOOT!
I'll go back to updating one week again, even if the chapters are really long.
Ooooooooooo, guess what? Plot starts next chapter! And you get to learn more about Ishtar! I can't wait!
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