Chapter 11

It Took A Moment Before I Lost Myself In Here

Yami wanted to be right next to Yugi. To hold his hand and let the boy know some one was there, that some one cared. The paramedics pushed the teacher away as they hurried to inject the child with the proper medicine to save his life. The young man just watched helpless. The boy's face was still pail and lips were still turning blue.

"He's stopped breathing!" One yelled as another quickly grabbed the right tools. They jabbed a tube down the child's throat and started to pump air into him. Everything seemed to go in slow motion. 'Yugi. Don't do this! After all you've come through you can't give up! Please just hang on. I know you can do this...' Yami sighed and placed his face in his hands. All he could see was Yugi's purple eyes. All he could hear was the child's voice. All he could think about was he was never going to hear or see his eyes again. The paramedics quickly pulled the boy out of the ambulance and rushed him inside. Yami, once again, sat in the waiting room and filled out another sheet, but somehow, this time he didn't have the heart to do it. He kept remembering Yugi's panicked voice and him gasping for air. 'He trusted me...' Yami thought as he put down the clip board and sighed angrily.

"He came to me first." Yami muttered softly. 'It was in this very same hospital I got Yugi to smile. Maybe not very much but it was still a smile.' The tri haired man felt completely miserable and useless. 'Yugi...' He remembered the first day he saw the child. This ruthless child that hid so much from everyone...trusted his 5th grade teacher.

Hours, that seemed like centuries, passed. Yami was starting to get really worried. If the boy was dead they would have come out and told him...right? Another hour passed and Yami was really starting to get anxious. 'He's alright. He's alright. I know he is.' He chanted over and over until the worries eased, but then another minuet passed and they once again returned. A doctor came out of the room and stood at the door was staring at his clip board for a couple of seconds. He flipped through pages and sighed and walked over to the front desk and bent over to ask the nurse to file something into the computer. Shaking his head sadly he stood up from his leaned over position. They finally he said Yugi's name. Yami stood up and walked over to the doctor.

"This way." He said motioning with his right hand, and carrying the clip board with his left. Once reaching the office he told Yami to take a seat. "He has slipped into a coma." Yami's eyes widened. "I'm sorry. We did everything we could to prevent him for slipping into one. There is very little chance he will awaken. Right now he is on an I.V. drip of Dezocine. It will help reverse the effects of the overdose. We will still continue to clear the boy's body of the Morphine but there is a chance he will not wake up. He is being monitored constantly because of the side effects of Dezocine, which include rapid heart rate and respiratory depression." The tri haired man nodded slightly. "The wound on his head had re-opened slightly. On one side the stitches had come loose and were causing him to slowly lose blood. His blood is thin and doesn't clot as well as it should. That could have been caused by any number of things and it's nothing to worry about we're dealing with it. "He is in the ICU and will not be allowed visitors until 2 days when he is more stable. Right now there will be constant in and out goings of the nurses and having visitors only adds to the stress. I'm sorry." Yami nodded and slowly stood up.

"It's alright. I'll be back in 2 days." The doctor nodded and smiled slightly.

"Good bye then." He said softly and stretched out his hand. The young man smiled and shook his hand. "I only hope that when you come back I can give you some good news." Yami's smile widened and he nodded and left. He sighed when he got into his car and went straight to his room and plopped onto his bed. Laying back he slept the rest of the night.

... . . . .. .. .. . . . .. . .Dream Sequence .. . . ... .. . . . .. . . .. .

"...10..."

A small boy raced around the cold dark house looking for a place to hide. He turned a corner sharply and almost ran into a table with a vase sitting atop it. Sighing the boy breathed in deeply.

"...9..."

A voice rang through the air. Thick and husky it made the small child shiver.

"...8..."

The child ran again. He ran into a closet and tried to hide in the furthest corner. If possible melt into the wall.

"...7..."

Sighing he raced out of the closet and under the bed. Scooting back he realized he was too open.

"...6..."

With wide wild eyes he shot out from under the bed and ran into a different room. Hiding in a close hamper he made sure the dirty towels and clothes covered him.

"...5..."

He looked through the tiny holes in the hamper and tried to calm his breathing down.

"...4..."

He was having doubts about this hiding spot as well.

"...3..."

It was too late.

"...2..."

He closed his eyes and pretended he was some where far away.

"...1..."

His breathing hitched.

"Come out. Come out. Where ever you are."

Heavy foot steps climbed up the stairs. They trudged over to the closet and the man ripped the doors open.

"Hmmm...I could have sworn I saw a little boy hiding in the...toy chest!"

A loud bang was heard as the toy chest was slammed open. He trudged over to the hamper and smirked. The man placed his fingers on the side of the hamper's lip and ripped it open. The child's eyes snapped open.

"Yami wake up." The child whispered quickly.

... . . . .. .. .. . . . .. . .End Dream Sequence .. . . ... .. . . . .. . . .. .

Yami shot straight up. The room was pitch black to show night had fallen. Rubbing his hands over his face he realized his was covered in sweat. Sighing he stood up and walked to the living room. That's when he realized that it was morning not night and he had to be at school in one hour. Mumbling incoherent words he grabbed a pop tart, knowing his work was already at school because of his haste to rush Yugi to the hospital, he headed for the door. Rubbing the sleepiness away from his eyes, at a stop light, he opened them to see a child standing in front of his car. It was Yugi. He blinked and rubbed his eyes again and this time when he opened them the child was gone.

"...help...me...Yami..." A soft whisper came from his side. Whipping his head around he saw no one there. Only the slightly stain of Yugi's blood on the seat next to him. Shivering he continued to drive once the light turned green. He walked inside the school and sat at his desk. Fortunately he hadn't had to explain anything to anyone about yesterday. The memory was still very raw for the young man. After organizing his papers and setting everything up for the day he walked down towards the front office.

"What can I do for you Mr. Moto?" The office clerk said happily.

"Um...I'd like to look at Yugi's school folders." The clerk looked slightly shocked but nodded. Handing him the folders she looked straight into his eyes. "I think he's better off the way he is." She said softly. Yami just thanked her for the folders and walked back to the class room. Sitting at his desk he opened Yugi's preschool folder. There on the front was a small angle boy smiling, showing off his white perfect small teeth, in his white ragged shirt. Yugi's young picture brought tears to Yami's eyes. He looked through all the papers. There were very disturbing drawings in the child's works. He wondered to him self why no one brought these forward. Other than that Yugi had gotten pretty much straight A's. 'A good student, with a huge heart and very promising, but very isolated.' Was a note from the teacher.

Yami smiled to himself as he closed the folder and picked up the next folder. This time Yugi's younger picture was different. He wasn't smiling and there was a bruise on his cheek. His eyes were slightly hollow and had a ghostly look to them. There were no picture's the boy had drawn except for one. It was a bloody mess. All over the paper was just a red crayon scribbled on the paper. Placing it to the side he saw Yugi's works. They were all F's. 'Child is disobedient, disruptive, and destructive. Refuses to do work. Retaliates when ever given the chance. Many harassment complaints from other students. The boy is violent and withdraws if some one reaches out. Numerous brusings and cuts on the boy, he claims they are from fights with other boys.' The teacher's note was very shocking. Some where in-between preschool and kindergarten the boy had slipped. Everyone had missed something. The pieces of the puzzle didn't fit. He searched through the other folders but found very little answers because the boy refused to do work. It was surprising the boy got this far, he's only guess was they wanted to get away from the child so they moved him up with out him being ready. Sighing he placed the folders away as he heard the first students enter the hall way. He went on with class at a very slow pace and constantly losing his train of thought.

During lunch he sat and graded papers. When he heard shuffling he raised his head. There Yugi was sitting in his desk looking at the front.

"Y-Yugi?" Yami whispered.

"...it's dark..." A whisper came. It gently echoed through the room. The door slammed shut with a loud bang. Yami got up and walked to the front of the room so he faced the boy. "...he's coming..." Another echo...but the boy's mouth hadn't moved. A loud thumping sound came from outside the door. Heavy foot steps. "...I'm trapped..." Once again the boy's mouth hadn't moved as the echo raced through the room. The banging got louder.

"Let me in you damn boy!" The voice echoed as the banging got louder. "It's time to play a game. Don't you want to play any more?" A menacing laughter echoed through the air. Then all was silent. There was a dripping noise.

...drip...

"Yugi what's going on?" Yami's voice was panicked.

...drip...

The child raised his hand and pointed behind the man. Yami turned around and saw blood seeming through the walls.

...drip...

He quickly turned back to Yugi when a bloodcurdling scream pierced the air. Yugi stood right before the man and blood poured from his eyes, as if crying blood.

"It's time to play." The child hissed with malice.

Yami gasped and sat up faster than a speeding bullet. His heart raced. When had he fallen asleep? The images kept replaying in his mind. He looked at the clock and realized he had only been asleep for 20 minuets. Sorting his thoughts quickly he organized himself. Finishing with his class he walked to his work room. Stopping at the door he sighed and placed his hand on the door. He grabbed the knob and twisted it and walked inside. Flipping the light switch on he sighed sadly. Looking over at the still unmade bed that Yugi had last slept in he walked over and sat on it. A tear found its way to the pillow bellow that he had been stroking.

"...don't cry..." A whisper came with a cool breeze. Yami looked up. There should have been no breeze because there were no windows. He just shook his head and thought it came from the air conditioner and he had imagined the voice?

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