Woooo. I might actually be on time this week. Wow.
I got a great response from last chapter, it made me very happy, yay! Over 200 reviews and its only chapter 10! That's more than I got on my other story, I think. YAY! THANK YOU WONDEROUS REVIEWERS! (hands out cookies and chocolate)
Yes, Ishizu is insane, very insane, but can you blame her? (thinks of poor little Malik) Well… yes, yes you can.
Just for clarification, Kaiba calls Jounouchi something like bonkotsu in the anime constantly. It means something like incompetent idiot or retard or fool or something. Since I'm not 100 percent sure what it means or even how it's spelled I just left it out. So if you're wondering why Kaiba's calling Jounouchi "idiot" all the time, that's why.
There is actually a card called, People Running About. It was probably something like Chaos in Japanese but those evil sensor people struck again! CURSE YOU!
Well, here you are, Part II of ESCAPING EVIL HOSPITAL PLACE!
ENJOY OR DIE!
This chapter is brought to you by: The Wonders of Ceiling Plaster! Woot.
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Chyaputa 11: People Running About
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Ishtar was frantically making her way down the hallway, trying to widen the distance between her and her dark pursuer. Her sweaty trembling hands desperately ran across the white walls as she looked for somewhere to hide. Her flittering panicked eyes found a nearby conference room and she forced her weak legs inside. The key was constantly slipping out of her moist oversized hands as she tried to hastily lock the door behind her. Finally the locked clicked and her weak knees collapsed underneath her, she wrapped her arms around herself waiting for overwhelming fear to stop rushing into her like a flood. A shuttering hot sickening breath escaped her parched dry lips.
Then, over the pounding of her heart, she heard footsteps. She froze, her breathing and heart stopped as the vibrations of feet hitting the cold tile floor outside hit her ear drums. They came closer and then stopped right outside her door, Ishtar's muscles cramped in the tension. A stretch of silence, Ishtar chanced to look up at the doorknob. It shook like someone was trying to open it.
There was crash of breaking glass as the tiny window set in the middle of the door broke. Ishtar frantically scrambled away from the door to the other side of the room, heart pressing up against her bleeding ears. A pale arm reached through the smashed window and slithered down toward the doorknob, spider-like fingers unlocking it in one smooth easy twist. Ishtar was too scared to move.
Her mind flashed, more violently this time than ever before. She could smell the blood already spilling out of her. The doctor clutched her throat; she could feel the red liquid slipping in between her fingers.
'What does this vision mean!' she thought desperately. 'Am I going to die? Am I supposed to die?' Ishtar stared at her crippled sweaty hands. They were clean, not a speck of blood on them, but in her mind she could see blood spilling out of her throat, staining her hands red. The door swung open and pale figure walked in.
"Ishtar-sensei," he spoke, dark almost black eyes staring down at her crouched weakened form.
"B-Bakura…" she breathed, jaw trembling. He grinned nastily, white teeth gleaming in the dim room.
"So, you have seen this coming," Yami no Bakura said, voice practically purring in delight as he came closer. "Yet you do not run?" Ishtar flattened herself against the wall behind her, the fumes of the imaginary blood making her dizzy. Dark Bakura's eyes widened, an insane excited light glowing in them. "Are you too scared to move?" he taunted, gracefully swooping down and picking up a large shard of glass from the smashed window. He flipped it playfully in his nimble fingers, transfixed by the reflected light it threw onto the walls around him.
'I'm going to die!' she screamed silently. 'I'm really going to die!'
"Why…? W-who are you?" she stumbled, paralyzing fear ensnaring her movement. The dark personality's gaze snapped down to her pathetic frail form.
"I am the one who will one day own this world," he answered turning toward her, eyes flashing in anticipation. She gasped and her heart froze.
"Own the world…?" she gaped. His eyes narrowed in a deadly glare.
"It would be useless to explain things to you any further," he answered deathly casual, stepping closer and fingering the sharp piece of broken glass in his hand. "Soon you'll just be another part of my soul collection…"
Ishtar opened her mouth to scream but the glass had already been driven through her throat before she could speak. Hot red blood bubbled up her throat and out of her mouth and flowed out from the wound in her neck, staining her white hospital shirt dark crimson. Dizziness and pain drove blackness into her mind, eating away at her consciousness.
'Malik… I'm sorry…' The thought flickered and died as her spirit finally slipped away.
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As the two Yugis and Malik ran down the hall in full sprint, Yugi suddenly caught sight of a door he recognized. He slid to a halt. Malik, who was running behind him, crashed into him.
"What the hell, Yugi?" Malik cried.
"I need to get something," Yugi explained, hastily passing his darker side's transparent form into Malik's arms and doubling back.
"What?" Malik exclaimed following him uncertainly. "Yugi, we have to get out of here before any guards come!"
"This is important," Yugi said and rushed into what looked like a doctor's office, papers and files cluttered on every surface. Malik followed him and then caught sight of the nameplate on the door.
"Ishizu Ishtar," he read out loud. "Why the hell are we in here?" he asked even more nastily. Yugi rushed over to a filing cabinet and pulled a drawer open.
"I need to find something," Yugi said opening another drawer. "Ah, this looks like patient files," he muttered to himself.
"Yugi!" Malik protested angrily. "We have to get out of here NOW! What if we miss Bakura because of you…"
"Kasuke…Kawabe… Kaikuyo… Here!" he cried triumphantly pulling a yellow file out of the drawer. "Kaiba!" he exclaimed.
"Yugi, what-" Malik started but Yugi had already taken his darker personality back from Malik and dashed passed him to the hall.
"Come on!" Yugi cried as he continued down the hall, yellow folder and Yami no Yugi secure in his arms. Malik grumbled something under his breath and followed after the shorter patient.
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This had not been a good idea, Jounouchi decided too late as he wobbled his way painfully down the hallway to the lunch hall. Even with crutches, it was hard enough getting from his room to the game room, now he had to travel over twice that distance to get to the Red wing's entrance.
'And how are you going to get in after to reach the entrance?' a tiny voice taunted in his brain. Jounouchi grimaced. He hadn't thought that far yet.
"First thing first," he muttered panting, his under arms aching with the extreme use of the crutches. There was another boom and Jounouchi's bulky cast hit one of his crutches' legs. Paralyzed by pain, Jounouchi lost his balance, the floor was coming up to meet him in a flash. Jounouchi winced and closed his eyes but the impact never came. An arm caught him around the middle, holding him up. Jounouchi looked around and saw Kaiba pulling him back up to his feet.
"You're doing something stupid again, idiot," Kaiba spat, pulling the blonde up into a standing position. Jounouchi barely had any strength to argue.
"I'm not going back," he said stubbornly. Kaiba scoffed, cold eyes flashing.
"Then how are planning on getting tothe Red Wing's entrance," Kaiba snapped.
"If you won't help me, then I'll have to crawl," Jounouchi answered persistently. Kaiba snorted, head bowed, brown hair falling in front of his blue eyes.
"You really do have a one track mind," he said tiredly. Jounouchi grinned.
"So, are we going to save Yugi or not?" he cried, a new determined fire burning in his eyes. Kaiba frowned.
"If you die, don't blame me, idiot," he answered helping Jounouchi slowly down the hall. Jounouchi snarled.
"Stop calling me that, you bastard!" Jounouchi growled relying almost completely on Kaiba to get him down the corridor, his discarded crutches lying abandoned on the floor behind them.
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Yugi and Malik sprinted around another corner and found themselves in the main hallway again, the exit to the Red Wing stood waiting for them at the end of it. Yami no Malik was there, flinging wave after wave of power at the steel doors, but the doors only dented at the impacts and refused to open.
"Looks like we're not through yet…" Yugi observed. Malik didn't answer. Yugi turned cautiously towards Malik only to see his hate filled gaze glaring at his darker self across the room.
'I guess, Malik really hates the other Malik,' Yugi thought solemnly. The dark Malik finally turned around noticing they were there.
/About time you showed up, useless personality/ he taunted, pale eyes glowing insanely. He walked towards Malik and Yugi arms out stretched, like a zombie searching for human flesh, eyes rolling sickeningly. /I'm almost out of spiritual power, I'll need to take some of your remaining energy to break down this door/ he explained sadistically. Malik took a frightened step back. His other self grinned, a dark chuckle escaping his lips, one side of his face stretching, slurring his twisted speech.
/Come now, don't be shy, my weak personality. You want to get out, don't you/ he snickered playfully, his red tongue licking his lips in hunger, claw-like fingers reaching for Malik's face. Malik cringed, too frightened to move. Yugi had never seen Malik so consumed by panic and fear. Yugi stepped in between them, although not very effectively seeing as both Maliks could easily see over his head.
"We have to wait for Bakura before we try anything," Yugi stated stubbornly. The dark side of Malik looked down at the shorter patient and scoffed.
/What makes you so sure he's even coming/ he asked cunningly. /He could of left us here to die…/
"Bakura-kun wouldn't do that!" Yugi answered firmly. Dark Malik snorted.
/Oh please. He's the only soul controlling that body now, why would he come back for us/ he questioned mildly. /What is stopping him from abandoning his host personality in the nearest hallway and escaping from this hellhole by himself? I know that's what I would do. I'm sure it would be a lot easier without the extra baggage./ Yugi hesitated searching for a reason.
'He couldn't have left. He wouldn't leave us here… would he?' Yugi thought. Yami no Malik grinned seeing the fear and uncertainly filling his purple eyes.
/That bastard wouldn't even blink if we get killed cause of him/ he snarled.
"Like that goes any differently for you," a low voice spoke behind them.
"Bakura!" Malik exclaimed, extremely relieved. Yami no Bakura approached, sure enough with Bakura Ryou still fast asleep in his arms. His eyes narrowed at the other dark personality, Yami no Malik glared right back at him.
/Where have you been/ he questioned rudely. The darker Bakura grinned and held up a slim card key.
"I was finding us a way out of here," he answered casually back. "That door is made out of plated steel. In your weakened power levels and even with Malik's extra energy you wouldn't be able to break it," he explained sharply. "Ishtar-sensei obviously didn't want us getting out."
"Bitch," Malik cursed in an undertone. Yami no Bakura looked curiously up at Malik and frowned.
"You sure you want to be criticizing the person, who freed you from your darker side," he said loftily. Malik's face darkened and looked away. Yami no Malik grunted, eyes half lidded in annoyance.
"Are you ok?" Yugi asked, taking a step closer to Bakura. "We were worried when you didn't come back." Yami Bakura's eyes left Malik and snapped onto Yugi. He stared at other curiously, much like he had done when Yugi had offered that puzzle to him in his cell not too many days ago. Yugi stared wondering what he was thinking but Yami no Bakura lifted his eyes before Yugi could read anything else.
"We've wasted too much time," the dark spirit stated walking over to the door. He swiped a card key, that he had gotten from good knows where, through the card reader and then pulled a dark shriveled object out of his pocket. Yugi's stomach rolled as he recognized it as a severed human thumb. Malik looked revolted as well but Yami no Malik only smirked in mild amusement. The dark Bakura pressed the digit to the fingerprint reading pad, unmoved.
Metal locks groaned inside the door, scraping against the bent walls. There was a screech that made Yugi and Malik flinch as the doors split painfully open.
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Jounouchi and Kaiba had finally reached the entrance to the Red wing when the doors across the room cracked open with a scratching metal squeak. There was a second of silence before the doors exploded off their hinges. Jounouchi and Kaiba had to fall painfully to the side to avoid them and landed in a crippled heap on the floor behind an over turned table.
"Shit! What the hell!" Jounouchi cursed angrily having fallen on his injured leg.
"Be quiet!" Kaiba hissed seriously. Sounds of people emerging from the Red Wing's entrance floated toward their ears. Jounouchi lay still, Kaiba's arm pinning him to the cold tile floor.
"Over did it a little?" a male teenager's voice accused rudely.
/I don't see you doing anything to help/ a low sinister voice answered, it was echoing strangely like the guy was talking through some sort of filter.
"Shut up both of you!" a third voice ordered sharply.
"Bakura-kun's right, we won't get out of here any faster unless you two stop arguing," a very familiar lighter voiced said. Jounouchi's head jerked up.
"Yugi!" he cried, shoving Kaiba off and standing up awkwardly behind the table. Before he could even stand up straight, a dark skinned figure appeared at his elbow. Jounouchi turned just as the figure's clawed fingers closed around his throat.
/Well, well, well…/ the figure mused casually, pale dead eyes widening playfully. /What do we have here/ Jounouchi's eyes filled with panic, The body of the guy, who was currently straggling him, was completely see-through. He choked, trying to get air into his lungs.
"Stop!" Yugi shrieked running forward. "He's my friend! Let him go!" he pleaded. The dark skinned ghost teen with the insane eyes glanced down at Yugi mildly.
/Why should I/ he cooed, eyes very wide, obviously enjoying himself.
"We don't have time for this!" an equally sinester looking white haired teen snarled angrily from a few feet away. "Let him go before I make you, Malik!" The ghost teen rolled his eyes then grudgingly let Jounouchi's neck go. Jounouchi gasped for air, arm thrown out on a nearby table for support.
"Shit!" Jounouchi exclaimed rubbing his throat. "What the hell are you trying to pull, you freak! Can't you see I'm crippled!" he screamed pointing to his left leg.
"Calm down, Jounouchi!" Yugi hissed urgently, afraid that if he complained anymore Yami no Malik would actually kill him. "What are you doing here?" Yugi asked curiously. Jounouchi turned to his friend, scratching the back of his head embarrassed.
"Well, we, ah… I heard there was an explosion or something…" he explained. Malik and Yami no Bakura's eyes flicked toward Yami no Malik who grinned modestly. "…so I came to…ah, see if you were alright," he finished. Yugi blinked.
"But the doors would have been locked…" Yugi mentioned obviously. Jounouchi sighed in defeat.
"I told you, one tract mind," Kaiba commented stonily, looking casually in another direction. Jounouchi growled at his roommate.
"Kaiba-kun, you came too?" Yugi asked awed.
"Only cause this idiot dragged me here," Kaiba explained coldly.
"I didn't drag you anywhere!" Jounouchi snapped.
"Will you be finished soon, Yugi?" a cold voice asked from behind Jounouchi. Jounouchi turned to see the very annoyed looking white-haired, dark eyed teen that had saved him. "Cause we do have to get out of here," Yami no Bakura added sharply.
"How are we going to get out?" Malik asked. Now that Jounouchi had a chance to look around, he noticed that all the people present, besides him and Kaiba, had transparent doubles, even Yugi, who's double was lying seemingly unconscious in his arms.
'I'll have to have Yugi explain this to me later,' he thought, mind buzzing with all this new information.
"Well, we can't very well go out the main entrance," Yugi contemplated. "If we go back into the city there's too big of a risk of getting caught." Jounouchi's ears perked, an idea popping into his mind.
"You could go out the back entrance," Jounouchi offered speaking up. Five pairs of eyes turned on him. Jounouchi hesitated at suddenly being the center of attention. "There's a door at the other end of the hospital that the delivery people use. I think it comes out right near the edge of the forest," he explained turning toward Yugi.
"Really?" Yugi exclaimed, eyes practically glowing. "That would be prefect!" Jounouchi grinned at Yugi's happiness.
"Well, when you've been here for a while you start to know the place pretty well," he explained modestly.
"Have you been here for five years?" the solid, slightly less sadistic looking Malik snarled rudely. Yami no Bakura stepped in between Jounouchi and his opponent, sharp dark eyes flashing.
"Which way?" he ordered fiercely, cutting Malik off from the conversation. Jounouchi looked startled but turned to face the left hallway anyway.
"It's this way," he said. All eyes turned toward the door and both dark skinned people and the white hair teen moved toward the door. Jounouchi was about to go after them but then remembered he still had the bulky cast around his foot. The constant aching pain returned and Jounouchi groaned. Yugi turned to face him.
"Are you alright?" he asked worriedly glancing down at his injured limb.
"Yeah, well… no, actually not. I can't really walk, you see…" he admitted. Yugi looked like he was about to help but then remembered that he was already carrying his transparent double's soul. Kaiba sighed and walked sluggishly to his roommate's side.
"Come on," he said reluctantly not looking at Jounouchi, offering his side as his roommate's support. Jounouchi hesitated then put an arm around Kaiba's shoulders.
"This doesn't mean I owe you or anything," the blonde added stubbornly.
"Of course not," Kaiba answered coldly, still not looking Jounouchi directly in the eye. Yugi stared curiously between the two of them, eyebrows raised.
'Kaiba helping Jounouchi?' he wondered in bewilderment. 'How long have I been gone?' Jounouchi caught his friend's awkward stare.
"What?" he asked slightly rude. Yugi shook his head.
"Ah… nothing," Yugi insisted. "Come on lets catch up with the others, we don't want to be left behind." Jounouchi nodded and they both followed the rest of group out the door toward the exit.
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By the time Yugi, Jounouchi, and Kaiba caught up to the others, Yami no Malik was already far ahead, "clearing the path again" as Yami no Bakura put it. Hot sweat was pouring down Yugi's face, his sides ached and his legs and feet were painfully cramped. The experiment that Ishtar had tried to use on them must have had a great toil on the body, seeing as Malik and Yami no Bakura looked almost as bad as he did. His other personality's see-through form felt like a thousand tons now, even though Yugi was sure he probably wouldn't have any problems carrying him in his normal health.
'Just have to reach the exit,' he told himself over and over again, jogging painfully next to Jounouchi and Kaiba, who looked like they were having as hard of a time as he was. Jounouchi winced with each new step and every once in a while his cast would bang into Kaiba leg knocking them both unbalanced which was then followed by a series of curses and dark threats from both roommates. Yugi watched their interaction closely with a skeptical eye. They came to a cross section between halls.
"Where to?" the dark personality of Bakura snapped. Jounouchi nodded his head down the right path, too tired to speak, mouth gasping for air. They filed down it the corridor walking as quickly as Jounouchi could hobble.
"So, Yugi," Jounouchi muttered out of the corner of his mouth, as they trotted down the hall. "Why is there doubles of all of you? And why are some of you all ghost-like?"
"Well, to tell you the truth, I really don't know," Yugi said apolitically. "I asked my other self once and he said he couldn't remember anything of where he came from or what he was doing inside of me." He briefly went over his meeting with Malik and Bakura and the experiment with Ishtar. Jounouchi frowned at the mention of the doctor.
"I knew she was evil," Jounouchi muttered darkly.
"She was only try to help her brother," Yugi insisted weakly, but to be truthful, he had lost a lot of faith in the doctor since the previous day.
'But in some ways,' he thought sadly. 'I sort of understand…'
"By the way, Jounouchi," Yugi murmured trying to keep his voice low so that only he and Jounouchi could hear. "What's with you and Kaiba? I thought you hated him. Are you like… friends or something?"
"What! NO!" Jounouchi hissed appalled. Yugi blinked.
"But you're both… I don't know, tolerating each other," Yugi prodded curiously. Jounouchi's mouth dropped open.
"Tolerating?" Jounouchi exclaimed. "He's a damned bastard! I can't stand him!" Yugi shrugged as best he could under the weight of Bakura's ghostly body.
"He's carrying you, isn't he?" Yugi whispered very quietly. Jounouchi paused, mouth opening then closing again, searching for a retort.
"Could you not lean over so much, idiot?" Kaiba said coldly. "You're going to make us fall over." Jounouchi turned to snap at Kaiba but found he couldn't find anything to say. Kaiba stared at his speechless roommate, suspiciously. Jounouchi finally turned away and tried to walk a little straighter, after all if Kaiba fell he would too. He glared down at Yugi who was smiling at his confusion.
"Whatever," he muttered, very Kaiba-like. The group stopped again but this time they didn't need Jounouchi's help in order to figure out which direction to go. At the end of the path straight-ahead was the door Jounouchi had told them about, Yami no Malik at the end of it laughing hysterically.
"Finally!" Malik groaned, leaning against the wall beside him, wheezing.
"Don't relax just yet," Yami no Bakura said warily. Out of a side corridor came a troop of guards, there were five of them; all had electric cattle prods and tranquilizer guns at their sides.
"Shit!" Jounouchi exclaimed. "How the hell are you going to get passed them?" Yami no Bakura grinned, fingers twitching with anticipation.
"Malik and I can handle it, you all wait back here," he ordered as he carefully placed Bakura Ryou's ghost-body on the floor and then immediately rushed forward. From the other side of the room came an ear splitting boom and the group of guards scattered like leaves in the wind, weapons flying everywhere. Jounouchi and even Kaiba, despite his normal indifference to every situation, gaped wide eyed as waves of rippling power that radiated off form Yami no Malik's body, destroying the remainder the hall.
"W-what the…" was all Jounouchi managed to get out. Yugi's Jell-O-filled knees collapsed underneath him; even to him, who had seen dark Malik's strength before, the power was amazing.
'Does my other self have this power too?' he thought. The normal Malik beside him barely managed to stay standing up. He had on much the same expression as Jounouchi had only his eyes were filled with fear, watching the awesome movements of his darker self. Yami no Bakura stepped in a second later, twisted some guard's arm behind his back before the man could reach his gun. Another violent jerk and the guard fell to the floor writhing in pain from his broken arm. Yugi, watching this from the other side of the room, felt sick.
All the sudden, there was a yelp from Jounouchi, pointing horrified behind them. Another group of guards was approaching them from down the hall where they had just come. Kaiba stood up, an angry glint in his eyes, but Yami no Malik got there first. Another earsplitting bang and the ceiling above them and the group of approaching guards exploded. Yugi pulled his other personality's disembodied soul closer to himself, arms wrapping around his form, waiting for the impact. Dust, tiny chucks of plaster and pieces of ceiling tiles fell passed his head but no large crushing pieces of wall or the upper story. Yugi cautiously glanced upward to find most of the ceiling around him, Malik, Jounouchi and Kaiba, suspended in middle air.
/Is everyone alright/ a strained voice asked. Yugi looked down into his arms and saw his other self's crimson eyes wide open, his palms stretched upward toward the fallen ceiling. A dark red shimmering shield glowed over them, holding back the ceiling.
"Mou hitori no boku!" Yugi cried relieved.
"…Yugi?" Jounouchi muttered, face filled with astonishment. At his side, Kaiba stared at the transparent Yugi as well, mind flashing back to days long ago.
'H-he's the one I who beat me,' Kaiba realized, blue eyes widening.
/Get everyone close to me, I'll hold it as long as I can/ Yami no Yugi called. Yugi nodded and then frantically beckoned Jounouchi, Kaiba and Malik over. They crawled underneath the center of the shield and joined him at the wall. Malik was crouched down with his arms over his head; afraid the shaky ceiling would collapse at any second.
Then Yugi spotted Bakura Ryou's host soul lying against the wall on the opposite side of the hallway. Yugi slipped out away from the others and managed to grab Bakura's foot, dragging his transparent soul across the hallway with the others. Yugi pulled himself and Bakura over to his darker half's side, hand closing on his darker personality's shoulder. Yugi sighed.
'I can still feel him,' he thought relieved. His other self turned to Yugi and grinned weakly. There was a groan of plaster and Yami no Yugi suddenly flinched facing the wall of ceiling and building parts again. He was holding the very foundations of the building and the upper story of the hospital from crashing down upon their heads now. Yugi looked up and saw that the shield that he had created was crumbling. The other Yugi turned his full attention on the bigger heavier pieces and sections of wall, letting the smaller ones break free of his control and fall. Another shower of plaster and ceiling tiles crashed down upon their heads. There was a thud and a sharp intake of breath beside Jounouchi and as the dust cleared, he could see a heavy chunk of tile had fallen from the ceiling and knocked Kaiba out cold.
"Kaiba! You damned bastard, wake up!" Jounouchi cried shaking him roughly but Kaiba didn't move.
/I can't hold it much longer/ the other Yugi cried stiffly, arms wobbling from the strain.
There was a distant bang from the outside of the shield and the large pieces of ceiling and heavy support beams hovering above them were thrown aside. Yami no Yugi flinched and his shield shattered and disappeared. Yami no Bakura was standing there, mouth open panting heavily, white hair in total disarray. In one hand he gripped Yami no Malik's arm, who had collapsed on the floor beside his feet, his ghostly body finally exhausted. Yami no Bakura's sharp eyes immediately searched out his lighter half as the dust from the plaster finally settled. He found him, lying asleep on the floor, one of Yugi's arms wrapped around his shoulders. Malik slowly lifted his eyes from his knees and peered around cautiously. Jounouchi carefully examined Kaiba's wound. It didn't look that bad, there was hardly even any blood.
'Must be just a bruise," Jounouchi thought hopefully, although he had no medical experience what so ever. Jounouchi pressed his ear up to Kaiba's chest and heard a strong steady heart beat echoing through his skin. Jounouchi sighed with relief.
"Well, that was exciting," the blonde muttered shakily, leaning back against the wall.
"Is everyone alright?" Yugi asked sitting up. He turned to his double and found him already fast asleep again. Yugi grinned tiredly.
"Lets get going," Yami no Bakura ordered, turning around to face the door, dragging Yami no Malik on the ground after him. Yugi and Malik nodded and both slowly lifted themselves to their feet. Yugi pulled his darker half onto his back again then turned down to the lighter half of Bakura, still lying unconscious on the floor.
"I'll get him, Yugi," Malik offered, wincing slightly as he walked over. Yugi nodded then turned to Jounouchi and the unconscious Kaiba, sitting with their backs against the wall.
"Jounouchi…" Yugi started but Jounouchi stopped him with a shake of his head.
"Don't worry about us, Yugi," Jounouchi said cheerfully. "You better get into the forest before more guards come." Yugi hesitated. "We'll be fine. Kaiba looks bad but he's breathing so I'm assuming he's alright," Jounouchi reassured. Yugi smiled and looked down at Kaiba.
"Oh! I almost forgot!" he exclaimed and looked around frantically at the floor. He must have spotted what he was looking for cause he flipped over a loose chunk of plaster and pulled out a slightly damaged yellow folder. "Here,' Yugi said tossing the folder toward Jounouchi. "Give this to Kaiba when he wakes up," Yugi said readjusting the position of Bakura's transparent body on his spine. "I think he'll like it. It proves what he was saying is true, about Ishtar-sensei being paid to keep him here," Yugi explained hastily as he moved toward the door to follow Malik and Yami no Bakura.
"What? Really?" Jounouchi asked astonished, taking the folder in his hands and looking inside it. Yugi trotted to the doorway then hesitated again and turned around.
"You sure you'll be okay?" Yugi asked concerned.
"Yes! Now go!" Jounouchi ordered sternly. "Don't worry, we'll see each other again!" Yugi grinned, blinking tears out of his eyes.
"Right! See you later!" Yugi called as he sped out of the doorway, waving.
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Wow. That was exhausting and confusing.
Ishizu's dead. Jounouchi and Kaiba got left behind. Sadness.
This chapter has been so difficult. I've rewritten it so many times trying to make it clear and junk but I might have failed. There were a lot of last minute changes that I still had to straighten out, like who was carrying who and such.
Next Chapter! So they're out of the hospital, what the hell are they going to do now? Lots of talking. Ryou wakes up and is so very confused for so many reasons.