Hi!
-dodges all things thrown on her- AH! I'm sorry! I really didn't mean to do that to Yami, I really didn't! I love him, and Yugi and the two of them together! But it had to be done! ...I sound like some hero from a really old movie...--
And another small note; I'm so sorry! I haven't updated in ages! I meant to update last week, I really did. But I had to go to a handball tournament (called Partille cup, which ROCKS by the way.) And I forgot to update! Again, I am so sorry!
Anyway, thank you everyone that reviewed! I was so happy to see that there still were some people left that read the story, and cheered me on! I love you all heaps!
Now, lets move on to the interesting part; The chapter!
Disclaimer: Seen any pigs flying by your windows lately? No? In that case, I don't own Yu-Gi-Oh. (not yet I do, mehehe...sorry.)
Pairings: Yugi/Yami. Quite much Jou/Seto in this chapter, and other pairings!
Warnings: Angst, boy/boy love and some Anzu bashing. (DIE, BITCH, DIE!)
Alright, that's all I need to say! Chapter starts...now!
Chapter 11Hospital
Normal POV
The first thing Yugi noticed was the small beeps from machines next to him. Then the smell of hospital; a stale smell. He felt light, like he was floating a few inches over the ground. It was quite a weird feeling, and made him feel disoriented. Where was he?
Slowly, the heaviness of his body returned to him, and he could feel things around him. He tried to move his hand, but found it impossible. It just wouldn't lift of the soft sheets under it...
Sheets? The last thing Yugi remembered was laying in the park, pain everywhere. And being in Yami's warm arms, soothing him from the pain somewhat. It felt like he just had fainted for a few seconds, and then he woke up. But it wasn't possible that he could have been moved so fast...
Yugi could now feel someone holding his right hand, caressing it softly. Was it Yami? Yugi wished that it was. He tried to reach out for Yami's mind, wanting to know if it was him sitting there.
Nothing.
Yugi felt nothing. The place within his mind and heart, reserved only for Yami, was empty. Only a black hole. Not like it was behind some mental block; it was completely gone.
A cold hand gripped Yugi's heart, and he suddenly felt very scared. Yami...wasn't there? Had something happened to him? He had to figure out...
Yugi slowly opened his eyes to make them half lidded. Then he closed them again, not being strong enough to keep them up. They felt a thousand kilos heavy. Then he forced them open, remembering what he had to know.
The first thing his eyes met was a pair of honey coloured eyes above him, watching him worriedly. Yugi recognized them at once. Jou.
Jou's eyes widened at seeing Yugi's orbs watching him. Then a wide smile appeared on his lips, and he threw himself over Yugi to hug him. "Yugi! You're awake!" He cried out happily, crushing Yugi against himself.
Yugi found it hard to breath, but still smiled at seeing his friend. "J-Jou...I...can't breath..." He said weakly, not being able to speak any louder.
Jou immediately let go of him, and pulled back to sit down again. Small tears of happiness could be seen deep within his eyes, and the smile on his lips seemed impossible to get rid of. "God, man! I was so worried about ya! I thought ya wouldn' wake up..."
Yugi blinked. He hadn't been asleep for that long, had he? "How...how long have I..." His voice faded. He couldn't keep it up long enough to get all out.
Jou seemed to get what he meant anyway. The blond looked a bit nervous, and scratched the back of his neck. "Err...well...ya have been in a coma, Yug'. For about a week and a half..."
"A...week and a half?" The small boy stared at his friend, with his mouth hanging open. He had been in a coma for so long? But it had only felt like he had blinked!
Jou nodded. "Yeah...weird, huh?" The blond suddenly got a new light in his eyes. "Oh, damn! I have to get the doctor..." He turned to rush out the door.
Yugi's eyes widened fearfully. He hadn't been able to ask where Yami was yet! "Wait...Jou." He whispered, reaching out his hand to his friend. Though, the hand fell down to the bed just one second after he lifted it.
Jou stopped in mid-leap, and turned around. He still smiled. "Wha'dya want, Yug'? Can it wait until I get the doctor?"
Yugi shook his head. Or, tried to. He barely managed to move it at all. "Jou...where's...where's...Yami?" He barely managed to stutter out that small sentence, being all too tired. It felt like he hadn't slept properly in all his life...
At that question, Jou suddenly turned pale. His honey eyes got a shade darker, and he looked away. "Yugi...maybe we should talk about tha' until ya feel a bit better..." He said uncertainly, glancing at Yugi.
Yugi blinked at seeing the strange look of hesitation and fear in Jou's eyes and voice. "Jou? Is...something wrong?" He got very worried, and his eyes filled with small tears. "Is Yami hurt?" 'Please say no', Yugi said inside his mind, looking fearfully at Jou.
Jou looked away, and Yugi felt his heart clench painfully. "Yugi...I don' know how to say this...but..." He sighed, and dragged his fingers through his tousled hair. Then he walked back up to the bed. With a retching sound, Jou opened his duffle bag and started rummaging around in it.
"When the doctors came in, they found tha' your body worked again. No one had expected tha'...but...I don' think tha' it was some coincident. Not when I found these..." He pulled up something with both his hands, and dropped it in Yugi's lap.
Yugi felt his heart stop for a second, before racing off in 100mph. He stared to sweat, and shake in the same time, and tears welled up in his violet eyes.
The pieces of the millennia puzzle.
A choked sob forced its way up his throat as he sat up and picked up few pieces in his hands. "No...i-it can't be...this can't be happening..." He whispered. Crystal drops left his eyes and fell onto the puzzle. "Yami..." He tried to reach out for Yami again and again, but found nothing. Only emptiness and hollow space.
Jou sighed, and rose again. "I have to get the doctors..."
Yugi quickly looked up. In his eyes, there were only sorrow and hopelessness. "Jou, can you do something for me?"
"Um...sure."
"Call Bakura and ask him to get here as soon as possible."
2 hours later...
"This better be important, brat." Bakura growled as he walked into the hospital room. "Ryou was about to give me a backrub, and..." He interrupted himself when he saw the golden pieces on the bed.
Yugi looked up. He had stopped crying a while ago, after the doctors had looked him over.
Then they had forced him to sleep some more, with some sort of liquid injected into his veins. Now he felt a bit better, and could sit up in the bed without any major difficulties.
The look in the small boy's eyes were serene, and calm. "I need help." He said with a soft voice, sounding completely calm.
Bakura's eyes narrowed. "That damn pharaoh! How dare he do something like that to the puzzle...before I can steal it!" A river of Egyptian curses left the former tomb robbers mouth, and he stomped up to the bed.
Yugi locked eyes with Bakura. The look he gave Bakura was almost empty. "Bakura, what could make the puzzle brake like this? And...what happened to Yami?" At the last question, Yugi almost whispered, and tears started to form again.
Bakura took one of the pieces on the bed and examined it. The brown, almost black, orbs narrowed, and he dropped the piece like it had burned him. "Yami has passed on to the Shadow Realm." He said blankly, shrugging.
Yugi's heart stopped. "...what?" He whispered out, turning a shade paler. "Y-You mean he's...he's...d-dead?" The last word was almost drowned by a sob.
Bakura shook his head, scowling. "No, unfortunately not. That pharaoh is a lot harder to kill. He's simply locked back into the prison of the puzzle. It has to be solved again. And then Yami will jump back all happy and giddy again."
A very relived expression reached Yugi's face. "Thank God..." Yami wasn't dead. He could still be saved...
Bakura suddenly frowned. "Unless..."
Unless? That wasn't a good word. Yugi had learned that through harsh experience.
"U-Unless...what?" Yugi stammered, his eyes turning alarmed.
Bakura watched him for a second. Then he put a hand on his forehead, making Yugi flinch. He still hadn't gotten used to other people touching him; Tony was still in fresh memory.
Closing his brown eyes, Bakura started mumbling some ancient spell, and a purple glow appeared around his hands.
Images suddenly started to fly through Yugi's mind, making an uneven pattern. Yugi could only make out a few ones, and started to feel dizzy from the colours shifting so quickly.
Yami smiling softly towards him, and laughing passed through behind his eyes, followed by an image of a fuming and narrowed eyed Yami, glaring at some person who had hurt Yugi. Then the image was replaced by a focused Yami who was duelling someone.
An image of Yami leaning down over him, softly kissing him passed through his mind, and he felt his heart make a backwards flip. Then he saw Yami glowing in a soft blue light, chanting. He saw Yami fade to become completely transparent. Then Yami mimicked three words;
I love you.
Then there was an explosion, golden lights flying everywhere.
The next thing Yugi knew, he was staring in to Bakura's eyes. The small boy shook with every breath he took, his eyes filled with tears. "W-What...what...what happened..."
Bakura closed his eyes. "Damnit. Yami is such a gigantic idiot. His ego is so fucking big that it's a fucking miracle that his head hasn't exploded yet! That fucking moron blew up his soul together with the puzzle!" The white haired spirit rose, and paced around in the room, cursing and mumbling in Egyptian.
Yugi's eyes widened. "H-He b-blew up his s-soul?" He whispered, staring at the pieces of the puzzle. Suddenly, Yugi felt very sick. It felt like his hands were bloody from holding the pieces in his hand.
Bakura suddenly understood how what he just had said must be worrying Yugi. "Oh, shi- It's okay, Yugi! Really, it is! We can still bring Yami back, but..." He hesitated. "...he might not remember everything."
Yugi snapped his head up to stare at Bakura. "What? You mean...that he might have...forgotten about us?" The small boy swallowed, and chocked on a sob. "That he won't remember...anything of what that has happened?"
Bakura shook his head, and sat down by Yugi's bed again. "Oh, he might remember a few things. If we're lucky, he'll remember everything. And it we're unlucky...well, lets just hope that we're lucky, alright?" Bakura picked up one of the pieces, and glared at it. "Listen, Yugi. Just try to put this thing together; focus on that now. I wish you good luck. But now..." He dropped the piece, and rose. "...I have an appointment for a backrub." And with that, Bakura left.
Yugi didn't even notice when the door closed behind Bakura with a click. He just stared at the pieces, and then sighed. "I'd better get started..." And Yugi picked up a few pieces and started his work.
During the weeks in the hospital, Yugi didn't let the puzzle pieces out of his sight. He sat day out and night in matching the golden pieces together, only taking a brake when the doctors and Jou forced him to. He barely ate, and only drank a few gulps of water before returning to the puzzle.
Jou was beyond worried. "Yugi, you need to eat a bit more. You'll never get better if ya don' eat!" He said on the third week Yugi had been working on the puzzle and watched Yugi as the boy sat with the not even half finished puzzle in his hands.
"I'm not hungry." Yugi said quietly, and kept puzzling.
Jou looked at Yugi a little longer. Then he sighed. "Please, Yug'? Take a brake. For me?" He paused. "Yug', I can't stand seein' you do this to yourself..."
At hearing Jou's pleading tone, Yugi felt his heart wrench. He sighed, and carefully put the pieces and puzzle down. "Alright, Jou. I'll take a brake." He suddenly felt that he was hungry. "Got any food? The stuff here at the hospital is awful..."
"Tell me 'bout it." Jou mumbled, and opened his bag to pull out four sandwiches. Handing Yugi two of them, Jou started munching on the other two. One in each hand, taking a bite of each in turns.
Yugi giggled at seeing Jou's antics, and started eating too.
After a few minutes, when Jou had downed both his large sandwiches and Yugi were halfway through his first, Yugi decided to start to talk to Jou. "So, how's Kaiba?" He asked politely, and smiled.
Jou flinched like someone had whipped him. Then he sighed. "Yugi...me and Seto..." Jou swallowed. "It's over." He said simply, looking down at the floor like it was the most interesting thing he had ever seen.
Yugi blinked. "What? How...what happened? How did it happen? I mean...you were so happy together..." Confusion and disbelief were clearly written across his face.
Jou laughed shortly; a bitter laugh. "Exactly. We were happy. Then Seto- I mean, Kaiba, decided tha' I jus' wasn' good enough for 'im." Jou swallowed down the lump in his throat. "And...he's dating someone else. Only one day after we broke up...I saw them make out and groping each other for all they were worth. Just when I walked past!" A sob erupted from Jou. "No fuckin' dignity at all..."
Yugi couldn't believe it. Not Seto and Jou. They had always been so happy...no troubles at all. And Seto had always claimed that he loved Jou! How could he do something like that? "Who is he dating now then?" Yugi almost feared the answer. Who could possibly have conquered Seto Kaiba's heart...if not Jou?
Jou swallowed, and laughed bitterly again. "Tha's the worst part, ya know. After all the times he went on and on about how much he loved me...guess he just wanted me in bed after all. Honda was right..." Jou stopped himself, and then looked up at Yugi. "He's dating Janice."
Yugi felt his heart fall like a stone into water. "Janice?" He said surprised. "But I thought Kaiba said he hated her! I thought..."
Jou shrugged, a tense look in his eyes. "Well, guess we were all wrong then. They just can't seem to get enough of each other." Bitterness and anger could barely be hidden in Jou's voice. "If ya just had seen the way they act in school...they cuddle, snuggle, make out...the whole fuckin' repertoire! I bet they even have done it in some classroom..." Jou's voice faded, as his sadness seemed to get greater.
Yugi leaned over to his shaking friend, and put a hand on his shoulder. "It's Kaiba's loss, Jou. If he couldn't see how lucky he was to have you, he never deserved you in the first place." In Yugi's voice, you could only hear sincerity. Those words came from the bottom of his heart.
Jou sighed shakily, and seemed to regain his composure. Then he looked up, and gave Yugi a weak smile, only a pale mirror image of his usually beaming grins. "Thanks, Yug'. I don' know what I would do without ya."
Yugi smiled back. "You're welcome, Jou."
Two weeks after Yugi's and Jou's talk, Yugi left the hospital. He was told to take it easy, and not move around too much. The doctors also advised him to keep out of school for a while, to make sure that he got more rest. And that would have been a logical choice, seeing that he would get more time to work on the puzzle.
But Yugi went to school anyway. He wanted, no needed, to be there for Jou. Even though the blond pretended that everything was alright, and that he didn't miss Seto, Yugi could see straight through him. He saw how much it pained to see his ex boyfriend together with Janice, and see them make out.
When Yugi first saw the way Seto and Janice sat in the classroom, he was sure he would faint. The blonde cheerleader sat comfortably in Seto's lap, giggling every now and then. She would lean down and give the CEO sloppy kisses, and then giggle even worse. It made Yugi feel a bit sick.
But it was the way Seto acted that made Yugi shocked.
The brunet kissed Janice back, and seemed to smile awfully much. The look in his blue eyes when he looked at the girl was adoring and loving, a look that Yugi had thought was reserved for Jou only. Seto laughed now and then, and seemed to, as Jou had said, snuggle and cuddle with Janice every chance he got.
Seto had never acted that way with Jou.
Even when the lesson started, the pair didn't move away from each other. They just sat and plainly made out throughout the whole lesson. Yugi was amazed that neither of them fainted from lack of air.
At the third lesson, which Yugi and Jou had together with Seto and Janice, Yugi glanced from Seto and Janice to Jou and back again. The blond seemed to try his hardest not to look at the kissing pair, but Yugi saw that he sneaked looks at them. And every time he did, the amber eyes got a pained look, and he quickly averted his gaze.
Half through the killer History lesson, Jou rose from his seat, and simply walked out from the classroom. The only explanation he left the teacher was a low mumble of 'bathroom.' Even before he closed the door, you could hear a small, half choked sob. That made Yugi's heart twitch with compassion for his friend. He turned his head around to glare at the CEO for hurting Jou that way.
Yugi blinked.
Seto was staring at the door, with a weird look in his eyes. They shimmered with mixed emotions, and the brunet frowned. Then he glanced at Yugi. When their eyes met, Seto's gaze seemed to speak to him; asking what the hell that was wrong.
Yugi only answered with a stern glare, and turned away. No way that he'd speak to the CEO, even though quietly. The way he had hurt Jou, he could never forgive.
When there were only five minutes left of the lesson, Jou came back. His eyes were red, and a bit swollen, proving that he had been crying for quite a while. His whole appearance looked broken and sad. He slumped down in his seat next to Yugi, simply staring down on the top of his desk through the rest of the lesson.
When the bell finally rang, Jou silently and without any hurry gathered his books. He refused to look up from his books, as he took them and put back into his book bag. Yugi also took his books, watching Jou quietly. It hurt him greatly to see the usually cheerful blond like this; Heartbroken and hopelessly lost inside his broken heart.
Yugi wondered for a second why Jou seemed to drop his books all the time to stay longer in the classroom, when he noticed a shadow falling over them both. "Yugi." A deep and cold voice said behind them, an Yugi turned around slightly. Jou, however, froze in place and clutched his book bag so hard that his fingers turned white.
"Hello, Kaiba." Yugi said coldly, and glared at the tall brunet. "Do you want something special, or can we leave now? We have a lesson to attend to, you see."
Another voice spoke up now, from Seto's side. Janice looked sweetly at Yugi from next to Seto and smiled. "Oh hi, Yugi! How good to see you, you have been gone for so long! What happened to you? I heard something about a gang accident." Janice turned her gaze to Jou, who still hadn't turned around. Her eyes turned vicious. "Was it the little mutt who got you into trouble?"
Jou tensed even more, and shook slightly. "...fuck off." He said weakly, voice barely above a whisper. It was clear that he would cry any second again if he had to stay any longer.
Yugi noticed this, and walked up and took Jou's arm in his hand. "No, I just happened to be in the wrong place in the wrong time. Jou was the one who saved me, along with..." Yugi stopped himself, and bit his lip. He couldn't bring himself to say Yami's name. "Never mind. We have to go now. Bye, Kaiba, Janice." He started to lead Jou out of the classroom.
"Wait a minute, Yugi. I weren't completely finished." The two boys stopped at hearing Seto speak.
"Seto, sweetie? What are you talking about, sugar puff?" Janice asked, blinking confusedly. Yugi almost threw up at the nicknames, and Jou flinched like someone had punched him.
"Yugi, can we leave now?" He whispered quietly, pleading to get out of the room. "Before I start-do somethin' stupid?"
Seto spoke now to Janice. "We'll meet up by the next lesson, okay Janice? I need to fix something here." His voice was soft, on the verge of cooing. That made Yugi rise one eyebrow, and then glare even more at Seto. And Jou flinched visibly, and then shook ever so slightly as he clenched his hands harder around his bag.
Janice sighed deeply, but then smiled again. "Sure, love. I'll see you later." She pecked him on the lips and then left the room, giggling like mad.
Yugi drew a deep breath through his nose, and turned to the CEO. "What do you want, Kaiba?"
Seto didn't even look at Yugi. He turned to Jou, who still stood with his back towards him. "Katsuya? Can I talk to you for a minute?" His voice was stern, and strong, like it always was.
Jou flinched, and straightened his back. "Who said you could call me Katsuya, Kaiba?" He said lowly, shaking slightly. "You lost tha' right when ya broke up with me."
Seto blinked once, and then sighed. "Katsuya, stop being so ignorant. Can I talk to you?"
The blond turned to Seto fully, still clutching his book bag with one hand. His whole face seemed cut in stone, but it showed clearly that it was just a mask. "There's nothin' to talk about in my opinion. You broke up with me for...for...that Janice. Tha' was your choice. And I hate you. See; nothin' to talk about."
Seto only seemed to react on one thing in that sentence. "...you hate me?" He asked, staring at Jou in disbelief.
Jou glanced at the floor. "Yes." He said quietly. No hesitation at all could be found in his voice.
The brunet walked a step closer. "Why? I don't think I fully understand."
In a flash, Jou snapped his head up again. A fire burned in his eyes, and he backed away from the CEO. "Why I hate ya! The real question should be; how could I once not hate ya! You fuckin' lied to me, Kaiba! You said you loved me, loved me for god's sake! And then ya break up with me for a...a...a goddamn chick! And a whore to that!" Jou let out a bitter laugh. "I'll never understand how ya could lie like that, Kaiba. I never thought anyone could lie about loving someone." He paused. Then he spoke quietly. "Guess I was wrong, huh?"
A strange look appeared in Seto's face. "Kat...I didn't lie about loving you..."
Before Seto could end that sentence, Jou slapped him. The slap rang through the whole room, and sent the CEO stepping backwards a few steps, holding his wounded cheek. The brunet stared in disbelief. "Katsuya..."
"Shut up!" Jou cried out, and stomped his foot into the floor. His eyes were tightly closed, but a few tears still managed to escape his eyes. "I don' fuckin' wanna hear it! Don't ya dare to give me false hopes, only to get them crushed by you again, and hear you and your fuckin' girlfriend laugh at me! I...I...I FUCKING HATE YOU, SETO KAIBA!" After uttering those last words, Jou ran out from the classroom, slamming the door behind him.
Yugi and Seto were left in silence for a few seconds, before the shorter of them quickly swung his bag over his shoulder. "Kaiba." He said calmly. "If I see you within ten feet of Jou, or if you try to call him or any of the like, I swear to all Gods I know that I'll send Bakura after your sorry ass." With that, Yugi left the classroom to take care of Jou.
Yugi closed his locker with a snap, and turned to Jou. The blond was also closing his locker, swinging his bag over his shoulder. His amber eyes looked dull and were still red from crying so much.
Throughout the day, Yugi had worked hard to make Jou happier. It wasn't easy, seeing that every time Jou saw either Janice or Seto, his eyes filled with tears that he refused to let out. It had taken all his willpower to keep them in, and not brake down.
But he had not been able to hold them back when Janice said something about her, Seto and a romantic trip to Paris that they would go on that weekend.
Yugi decided to try to cheer Jou up again; it was the least he could do.
"Hey, Jou? You wanna come home to me tonight? Grandpa is making his spaghetti speciale!" The small duellist said happily, and smiled brightly towards the blond.
Jou sighed, and shook his head. "Nah...I don' really feel like it. I just wanna go home. This day has been just horrible...not only do I have to watch the two of them from afar; I also have to try to hide from Kaiba!" The blond glared at his closed locker.
Yugi blinked. "Huh? What do you mean?"
Jou turned towards Yugi. His amber eyes were pained and shone with unshed tears. "He's been trying to talk to me the whole fuckin' day, Yug'! He's just everywhere...damnit...can't he just leave me alone? He has already broken my heart once; ain't that enough?"
Yugi stared at Jou, and his eyes suddenly started to glow angrily. "That bastard. I told him not to do that..." The small boy sighed, and then smiled. "Just ignore him, Jou. I'm sure he'll give up soon."
"Are we talkin' about the same Seto Kaiba? 'Cause he'd never give up; not in this lifetime." The blond sighed, and then started walking towards the door. "But ya're right. I'll ignore him. And that little whore of a girlfriend too." Jou gritted his teeth together, as they walked out the door from school.
Yugi was quiet for a second, watching the fuming Jou. A realization hit him, and his eyes widened, before he closed them for a second. Then he spoke, in a very soft voice. "You still love him, don't you?"
Jou froze for a second. He let out a nervous laugh. "What? Of course not! How can ya even begin to think tha' I'd...no way tha' I'm..." He paused. Then he glanced at Yugi. "...ya want the truth?"
"Preferably, yes."
Sighing softly, Jou nodded. "Yes. I still do. Probably always will. And it annoys me. If I just could...fall out of love...I'd be happier." He bit his lip. "I think..." A groan escaped from the blonde's lips. "Oh, damnit! I don't know!"
Yugi melted this information. Jou should hate Seto, he had every right to. But he didn't. The love he once had shared with the CEO was still there, just as strong. "You fucking bastard, Kaiba. I never thought myself capable of hate...just proved myself wrong." Well, Yugi didn't
hate Seto. Just the way he had acted.
Jou looked over Yugi's head, and suddenly his eyes widened. "Oh, shit...err...I gotta go, Yug'. Call me this weekend, alright? See ya!" And with that, Jou turned around abruptly, and ran down the streets.
Yugi blinked, and turned around to see what had made Jou react like that.
Behind him, about thirty metres away, stood Seto. His blue gaze seemed directed in the same direction Jou had run. And, even though the distance, Yugi could feel longing in the CEO's gaze. Then, in the next second, Seto ripped open the door of his limo and jumped in. The limo made a quick u-turn, and drove in the same direction Jou had run.
"Damnit." Yugi mumbled, and turned to walk towards his own home. Jou would have a busy day today
Jou ran the fastest that he possibly could, his breath equally quick as his steps. Adrenaline pumped through his veins as he fled from the only thing that ever had scared him. Seto. No, Kaiba. It was just Kaiba to him now.
Painfully, the memory of his and Seto's break-up bubbled up within him. He barely could keep the tears back.
Seto had asked him to meet him at a restaurant in town, and Jou had happily agreed. It wasn't unusual, they often went out to eat, seeing that Jou sucked at cooking, and the CEO refused to cook. At all.
At the second they entered the restaurant, Jou felt that something bad was about to happen. The usually loving Seto had been quite distant, and cold towards him. He had barely said a word throughout the whole night.
After the dessert, Seto had done it. He had just looked Jou straight in the eye, and said; 'I don't love you anymore, Jounouchi. I don't think I ever did.' Then he had rose, told him that he could would send him those things that he had left in the mansion. Seto also said he could keep the house. Then he left.
Jou didn't know how he managed to get out of the restaurant. Probably some waiter that had helped him out. Maybe the waiter that had served him and Seto that evening. A nice guy, named Pierre. Jou was sad that he had forgotten to tip him.
Jou shook his head and got rid of the memories. His legs suddenly couldn't run anymore, and forced him to walk. A sob forced its way up his throat, but he angrily pushed down the next. Why couldn't he stop crying? Only chicks cried over something so stupid as a break-up. It was over, and that was that. Se-Kaiba, didn't love him anymore. Simple as that.
Then why couldn't his heart stop hurting?
Suddenly, a limo drove up next to him. Jou's heart froze, before beating harder and faster. It was his limo.
Jou didn't even glance one more time, before walking faster. The limo followed him, and the buzz of a window opening was heard. "Katsuya, stop." Jou increased his pace at hearing that voice, and tried to block it out. "Katsuya, I need to talk to you. It's important, please..."
Jou stopped, and glared at Seto who was looking at him through the open window. "Stop following me, ya jerk. I don' want to talk, not now, not ever." And Jou started to walk again.
The sound of a door opening reached Jou's ears, and then a loud slam. "Listen, I don't have time for this. I just need to talk, stop being so difficult."
"Difficult!" Jou turned around so fast that he almost lost his balance. The amber eyes, that once shone with happiness, were close to black with mixed emotions, none of them close to happy. "Am I being difficult! Well, have you had to be stalked by you ex boyfriend who broke up with you because he, I quote, 'doesn't love you, and never has'!" Jou screamed this out, his words echoing through the empty streets.
Seto's eyes flashed with some unknown emotion. "Katsuya...I didn't...I didn't mean to say that. But I had to...if you would just listen..."
"No!" Jou screamed again, and backed away. "I won't just fuckin' listen! Because there's nothing you can say to make what ya said right! Just leave me the fuck alone, and let me live my screwed up life!" And with that, Jou ran again.
"Jou!" He heard the CEO cry out, and then he heard running steps behind him. Jou's heart jumped, and he forced his legs to move faster. If he just reached his house...
There it was. Only a few yards away! Jou increased his pace, and threw the door open. Sometimes it was a good thing forgetting to lock your door before you left. He slammed the door shut again, and locked it.
In the second he locked, someone pulled at the door handle. "Damnit!" He heard the curse through the door, and relaxed. He couldn't get in. Then, Seto screamed through the door. "Katsuya, please open the door! I need to talk to you, it's really important! Please? Katsuya!"
Jou backed away from the door, and pulled down the blinders for all windows. No way that he'd let the CEO in. No way in hell.
A low thud was heard outside the door, and then a deep sigh. "Fine then. I'll just wait out here until you let me in. I can wait." Then there was only silence.
Jou stared at the closed door. He would sit out there? Just sit there and wait for him to open? No...he just said that he would to make Jou feel sorry for him and open. Well, Jou would make him disappointed. He could sit out there and rot for all he cared.
Because Jou wouldn't, just wouldn't give up before Seto.
Click...click...click...
Yawning quietly, Yugi lifted up a golden puzzle piece and matched it into the puzzle. He shifted it until he heard a satisfying click. Then he shifted in the chair, and took a new piece. His eyes burned with fatigue, but he didn't go to sleep. It was far past midnight, but Yugi refused to stop. He ignored the call for sleep from his body, and matched in the next piece.
And then the next piece...and the next...and the next in a never-ending pattern.
With empty eyes, and empty mind, Yugi continued putting the pieces in the right places. It felt like he was in some sort of trance, and it wouldn't let him go. Yugi wanted to sleep, he really did. But one part of him, the strongest part, kept him by his desk and forced his hands to continue working.
One hour later, Yugi reached out for another piece...only to find that there was no pile greeting his hand.
Violet eyed quickly snapped away from the puzzle to stare at the desk he sat by.
Lying all innocently next to him, was only one shining piece. The one with the eye of Horus.
The last piece of the puzzle.
Yugi's heart pounded harder in his chest; he could hear the beats in his ears. Only one piece left...then it would be finished. It felt just like the first time he had solved it, the nervousness, the happiness of being the one to find out about the puzzle's secret. Eight long years it took the first time. This time, eight long weeks. But, those weeks had felt much longer than those years. Because now he knew what he would gain.
Yugi took the piece with a shaking hand, and then took the puzzle in his other. Slowly, almost fearfully, he put the piece in the remaining hole.
Then he pushed it in.
For a second, nothing happened. The puzzle simply laid there in his hands, showing no sign of the ancient magic that once had been there. Yugi felt his hope drop.
Then the eye started to glow. First only slightly, but the light soon increased in power. Faint chanting could be heard all around the dimly lit room, and made Yugi shiver unpleasantly. The room suddenly felt alot hotter, like an oven or...a desert.
Suddenly, his hands started to glow, and then his entire body. Yugi stared, and then closed his eyes when the light became too bright. A strange feeling of being split in two filled him, and his body started to shake. A flash of pain shot through him, and Yugi screamed silently. Then the pain was gone, and so was the light. Yugi opened his eyes, and blinked at the darkness of his room. The lamp on his desk had gone out, the light bulb broken in two.
Exhaustion hit Yugi like a tidal wave. His head started to spin, and he blinked confusedly several times. Trying to maintain consciousness was a loosing battle, but Yugi tried anyway. He needed to know what would happen now; would Yami come back? He just couldn't let go just yet...
Yugi's eyes fell closed, and darkness surrounded him. His limp body fell backwards and off the chair, but he fell softly into a pair of caring arms.
End Chapter!
If that's not a cliffhanger, I don't know what that is.
I guess everyone hates me now...but I just had to do it! I must make sure that you all come back, ne? –smirks evilly-
Ah, and I know there were quite much focus on Seto and Jou this chapter...I hope you don't mind. I really needed them to play a little bit bigger part in this story...sorry for those who are opponents of the pairing.
Now, please review! I need to get reviews to keep the will to write up! Cookies for all those who reviews! And chocolate chip cookies for those who writes long reviews!
Next chapter might come up quickly...or not. That's up to how much my mother...-glares-...will let me write this summer. Ah well...see you all soon, peace and luve to you all!