Chapter: Ow my finger!
"I said STAY!" is the last thing I hear my neighbour yell before the banging pads of the American staff pup in our apartment block scrambles past me bumping my leg and almost dragging me down with him.
Why almost you think, well, as you all probably know I'm a small man obvious lightly underweight, but more important healthy so, nothing to worry about. Only I'm not sure about that healthy part because while I was trying to prevent me getting a hole in my head from the stairs, I managed to grab the rail which only gave me some sore muscles later. My left pinkie, however. I can't make a full fist with it; the tip of my pinkie is as stiff as a board, and I fear this is not a bruise that will past by with keeping it moving to prevent it getting stiff.
The neighbour rans past me yelling a apology and if I need anything, just call. Yeah, it always goes like that when she has trouble controlling her dog. The staff is a pup 6 months old, has the energy of a pack full of huskies and to be honest with you, the house is to small for a dog with this much of an high energy level.
She is a single mother of the loveliest 8-year-old-boy I sometimes babysit on when she wants a night with friends. One of those friends thought it was a good idea for the kid to gift it with a dog, and that happened to be this happy energetic rambunctious guy. Friendly with people and other animals, but I made my neighbour clear, he was not welcome in my home. One flick with his tail and the items flies off my coffee table, and since they are of value to me. Yeah, I like to keep them safe.
The boy gives me the impression the dog is a bit too busy for him, since he himself is easy to coax into backing cookies and doing other non-overexerting activities. He'd rather lies with you in a hammock and looks towards the down going sun, than run behind a ball and kick it away again. He'd rather reads a good book, than watch tv with all the violent, gore and blood, I think it creeps him out a bit. so yeah, a high energy dog, with a low energy kid can be a good enough reason to find the balance, but it does not always work that way, and this is the latter case.
But back to the present, I'm on my way to meet with a business associate when this rambunctious dog runs me over and my left pinkie hurts like a bitch since it got stuck to the railing of the stairs, still I go to the bus and sit down while my hand still is shaking from the pain it has, it even makes me dizzy and weren't it a breakfast appointment probably also empty my stomach with what I had consumed.
This is not good, so I decide a doctor would probably the best option now, my finger needs to be looked at so I make the call and within an hour I can see the doctor. While on my way I also call Kaiba to tell him I will not make it to the meeting and have no idea if I'm able to come to work. Luckily, he tells me the associate called off only five minutes ago, the meeting is changed till tomorrow during lunch hours. Good that means I don't have to feel ashamed for not showing up.
The doctor calls me in, and she tries to make me form the hand in a fist, but the tip of the finger keeps locket. She says it probably is a bruise keep it cool and keep trying to move the finger it will get better eventually, but my gut tells me it isn't that. "I have had bruises in the past even with my fingers, and I can assure you this is not a bruise, I want at least a x-ray made of it to prove if you are right!" I say firmly, "My finger does not look this strange when bruised or stiff, nor does it seem logical in my world to have a finger locked as it is now to pass it off as a bruise!"
With a grumble she orders an X-ray and even makes an appointment for me to go to the hospital. Thank Ra. So, from my home doctor towards the bus and on to the hospital. Once there I get some strange looks but it's nothing new for me, I get these looks since I became King of Games when I was only 15 years old and threw Kaiba of the throne.
I ignore the stares to focuses on my goal to find the right wing but can not help to hear some of the people wonder what Yugi Muto, King of Games does in a cheap hospital like this, and don't I have a medical staff at my disposure? To answer your question… no, I don't have a medical team of my own, I need to work to keep my living, and yes, I am the right hand of one of my biggest gaming rivals in the biggest gaming industry throughout all of Japan.
Walking towards the info I ask them where I can find the x-ray department and the woman looks shocked at first but then politely tells me where I need to be. West 12. Following her instructions, I go there and write myself in. only 15 minutes I'm called inside, and the nurse says that she already suspected it, but it now was confirmed.
Curious as I can be, I use my charms (puppy eyes of doom. Ra, I love my big eyes, smirk) and ask her to tell me, again a win for me because she tells me the tip of my finger is dislocated… Owts, that explains allot. She orders me to sit down in the lobby and wait till I'm called over; they probably need to take me to the first aid to set my finger there.
"His eyes are dangerous, I will not take him to first aid, he used them against me!" I hear the nurse saying at another nurse and again I smirk. I wonder what they are worried about, that I seduce them into bed? Maybe were I to swing to the female body. But when Anzu rejected me, she told me that I needed to look if I was honest with myself if I were to date a girl.
I did some soul surging and figured I only chased her because I thought it was supposed to be boy/girl. But not embracing it yet, I did some looking into homosexual relationships, and learned it was looked upon to, but not like in the Middle Ages where gay men and woman got murdered.
I embraced my gayness and dated some men, but none of them were truly after me as a person, but more after me for money I don't have since I paid my college depth with it. Yeah, King of Games Yugi Muto is with his 33 years old still single, do I care? Nope, I enjoy the fact I don't have a partner, nobody I need to consult with when Kaiba sends me off to a different company and talk about expanding.
When it gets to much and handling myself isn't working out, I call Ryou and vice versa. He is like me also single, and we came to the agreement of being friends with benefits. We decided this because we wanted to feel loved without being bound, and we wanted to do it rather with a friend and knowing it would be safe, than hire a whore with the possibility to get illnesses nobody is waiting for.
Beforehand we had written down a agreement:
1. Sex aways happened with a condom.
2. We stand open to explore new things with each other (and we try allot of things together) but also to be honest and willing for a repeat yes or no.
3. When we find a partner, we are willing to share our life with, the agreement stops, unless they are willing for a threesome or even foursome.
Both our signatures written down and sealed in we are doing this for a few years now. Mmm maybe I call him over tonight, it has been what? A month? Damn I really need a fix if I can't remember when the last time was. A quick text is sent over towards him an I'm patiently waiting for his replay.
"Mister Muto?" I hear a nurse say and I look up. This is not the same I had before, and I feel she also is not one to mess with. "If you would follow me." She says and I do as she says.
"Where are we going?" I ask but get no answer. Annoyed to that I stop and face her, using my puppy eyes I ask her again. "Where are we going?"
"Mister Muto, I have three kids, six grandkids, and three great grandchildren, if you think those puppy eyes work on me, than you are mistaken! Now come!" she barks.
Damn I hate it when my guts tell me it will not always work. Meekly I follow the nurse towards the first aid she hands the papers to the lady at the info and leaves me to it. The woman at the desk asks me for my address, my own phone number, and if the first contact number also is correct. "No, my grandfather passed away a year ago. I haven't a new first contact yet." I tell her and she deletes that number pressing me I need to find a first contact as soon as possible; I promise her I will.
"Mister Muto, it would be a wise idea to go to the bathroom, with your status you probably are not willing to leave hospital with a wet patch over your crotch, people might talk." The woman states blundly and makes me feel hot for a moment. talking about straightforwardness. But grateful I take her advice and go to the bathroom. After I washed my hand I get a replay form Ryou, and shit, he is not free tonight, but he offers the weekend to which I agree on.
When I return a new nurse already is waiting for me to guide me to the treatment room and a doctor and trainee are following us. Entering room number 17 I'm asked to make myself comfortable on the bed, the doctor and trainee look at it and then the doctor says without sugar-coating. "He is going to pull your finger for a moment, these kinds of things will be without sedation, as soon as the finger is set we make a check x-ray and we ask and write down what had happened."
"I'm okay with it, just get it over with please."
The trainee sits on the stool and takes my hand and with the other my finger. "Do I count back or just get it over with?" he asks me.
"Just get it over with." I say.
"Okay deep breath, and…" a loud knock fills the room together with a yelp of pain coming from me. Shit, I understand why that nurse told me to pee first, my crotch twisted for a moment and were I to have any urine in my bladder, it defiantly would have wet me now.
The doctor and trainee allow me to find myself again, they go see a different patient for a moment and when the x-ray is taken, they return and tell me if they need to pain me once more. Ra, I hope not.
Now able to make a fist I gently squeeze it into a fist and un-fist it, it helps taking the pain off while I'm answering the nurse what has happened. Then I'm taken to X-ray and led back to room 17 again.
The trainee arrives and he tells me the one-time pull was enough, he does little pulling to make sure it will not pop back out again but is satisfied with the result. He takes a finger brace and orders me to wear that a couple of days when the pain gets to much. I also need to flex my finger in order not to let it become stiff and with that I'm off to go.
So, with a blue brace around my pinkie and ring finger I finally set to work. Sigh, a nine till three workday and only three more hours work to finish, I hope I manage to end it before my clock ticks off.
Normally Kaiba would order an employee to finish the missing hours, but since I work therapeutic due to burn-out after grandpa died, and I just moved out to my apartment with all the stress coming with it, he is not allowed to do that with me. When I showed him the doctor's paper of me having burn-out, he asked me what the hell I was doing in his office. I told him I'd rather work a few hours a day than sit at home and go against the walls because I'm bored like hell.
Traveling is cancelled, but I do need to work on expansion within Japan and meet up with potential business partners for our company. My working hours were pushed back from the original 40 to 10 and whenever I feel to it, I ask Kaiba to add an hour extra. I'm now at 16 and feel content with how this goes. I have energy to spare can do my home shores and even am able to meet up with my friends.
Sometimes my friends need to drag me out when I have a 'down day' one time Joey dragged me out, ripped my pj off, threw my naked ass in the shower and washed all the sweat and grime off me. When finished he helped me dry myself off and forced me to dress in normal clothes. When ready we came into the living and all my friends sat on the couch, Anzu having a whiteboard filled with chores and ordering them to fix them.
Even I was pulled into cleaning my house, and when it was clean again Anzu gave me a paper, she had catharised each room with a day and told me to keep to this schedule. Each Saturday one of my friends would pick me up and go and stock my empty cabinets. And when that was done, we went to do something fun. Be it with the group, or with only one of them, it became a rhythm I felt comfortable in. Yes, my friends are truly a blessing.
Next day I am in a battle, my hair is a mess, and I can't manage to ty my shoes! Sigh, for my hair I need to ask someone at work, but if I leave my shoes untied, I have another round in the hospital. No tanks, I pass for that. So ready to leave making sure my brush is in my bag, I walk to my neighbour and knock on her door, the dog loudly barks, and the woman manages to hush him quickly. She opens the door and looks to my messy hair. "The hair can wait, can you ty my shoes?" I say.
She beds down and ties them for me, then she straightens and fixes my tie. "He goes to a farm, I talked with my friend told her I can't handle such a big dog in this house and Huan can't get used to him. he asked for a kitten instead."
"Need help looking for a kitten?"
"Yes please, I don't know where to look and what is needed." She says and I promise her I will help her this afternoon when I return home. She is happy to have me as neighbour, as the only man in the complex I'm often asked to help to fix something for her and all the ladies in the complex. I don't mind I'm happy to help.
Going to Kaiba corp first so I can prepare properly for my lunch date and to see who the potential new partner is. But first my mess of a hair. I walk inside and Rebecca my secretary spots me. "How are you win that new partner with your hair looking more of a mess then usual?"
"What else do I have you for, to fix my messes?" I say pulling out my brush and hand it to her while taking place in her chair and allow her to brush my hair. "Besides, it wasn't my choice to dislocate my finger, it was the dog's choice."
"Your hopeless you know that."
"I know, that's why you love working for me... OW!" yeah, it goes like this all the time, we bicker allot but keep it fun, that swap with my brush I probably deserved. Thinking back to the time I was 16 and she had a crush on me, I smile, the girl probably wasn't on her first period being still 10 years, and already was claiming me to be her boyfriend. When I turned 18 years, I told her this needed to stop, it was fun while it lasted but with me being adult, I could not afford getting a bad name because I was dating a 12-year-old.
When she was 18 years, she came to me and claimed me again as her boyfriend, only for me to return with blue balls (literally) because I had told her I am gay. Those orthopaedic shoes of her made me look cross eyed for at least a few weeks and still do when I think back to that. I lost contact with her for a year or so when she walked into Kaiba Corp and became my secretary you can imagine how awkward I felt and to work things out without me protecting my balls when in front of her, I offered her to talk about it, burry the hatch and start over.
She agreed, we talked and started over. We agreed on small bickering but noting to serious, also because she's a woman, I would not hesitate to fire her if she ever again attacked my nuts with her stale toe. The word love is a sore subject to her, and often the reason I get a swap. Thankfully she calmed down and with my head resting against her belly I feel the little one kicking.
"He's active today, you sure you don't need early leave?"
"Nah, this one needs at least a month, and there are many other women that work till due day. I'm fine." She says brushing her fingers through my hair to make sure all the nods are out. "By the way, you know who you have the appointment with?"
"Nope, Kaiba always waits until last moment with telling me who I have breakfast of lunch with. Have an inside scoop for me?"
"Yup, you are having lunch with the Sennen heir." She says and I fall out the chair.
"Ra damn Kaiba! I say while scrambling up and check if my finger still is okay. The Sennen heir, AKA the Prince of Games, Atem Sennen, he managed to kick Kaiba a few years ago from second place and he is together with Kaiba my biggest rival, but also my secret crush and of many others. "I thought they weren't interested in a partnership with rivals?" I point out but Rebecca simply shrugs her shoulders.
With a sigh I get up and sit down in her chair again so she can finish up my hair. "If I wouldn't know better, Kaiba is intending me to date the guy." I say loudly but silently think I hope to be the lucky bastard who gets to date him one day.
"Only Kaiba knows why he puts you up with these clients, I get your coffee as soon as I'm done here." Rebecca says and I feel the brush running though my hair a few more times followed by her hand until she is don. She hands me my brush and I go into my office to prepare myself mentally for this date. That and to make sure I'm able to control my urges, so as soon as coffee is devoured, I have checked my e-mails and responded to them, I go to my connected bathroom and relieve myself of the pleasure I'm not allowed to show.
When relieved I feel active, ready to kick ass with a potential new partner, and maybe with a bit of luck, and hopefully a date in the near future. I wave goodbye to Rebecca who rolls her eyes. She knows what I do when I'm in the bathroom, jerking myself off is a great stress relieve but I asked Kaiba for a lock on the door when Rebecca walked in on me a few times when she needed to use it.
Thank Ra, the restaurant is across the street from Kaiba Corp, and thank Ra I'm allowed to use the card Kaiba provided me when I'm on a lunch meeting this probably is one of the most exclusive diners around here.
The bouncer asks for my name, and I hand it, he calls a girl over who will guide me to my table. And when I sit down, I see my guest isn't here yet. that's fine, I like to be a bit early on these work-related dates, it gives me the time to adjust some final things at my appearance, brush my fingers through my hair one more time, check for wrinkles in my clothes and iron them out, and today also see if my brace sits nicely around my fingers.
Soon enough I see the man walking in, and damn he looks hot, I'm happy I fixed myself not too long ago, but I don't know how long I manage to keep my composure. The same girl who took me to the table now guides Mr Sennen to the same table. As a good host I stand button my vest like Kaiba's etiquette have taught me and offer my hand while introducing myself although we both know each other by name.
Before we sit down, I'm having some trouble unbuttoning the vest, and under my breath I grumble at my finger. "Need a hand?" Atem asks me with a smirk on his face. "Looks painful." He ads and I manage to open the button before he can reach and open it for me.
"Yeah, an unfortunate accident, with a few days it should be fine again. Shall we start mister Sennen?" I say, he offers to talk on first name base and I agree, I like first name base be it work or friend like I simply enjoy to call a person by their given name, we both take a look at the menu, we order, and he clears his throat, okay straight to business, fine by me. I look at him curiously allowing my eyes to widen out a bit more.
It takes him back a bit. "Ra, those eyes of you are going to kill me one day." He says. "To cut the crap, this is not work related, I am begging Kaiba to allow me a date with you for quite some time, from the moment I stood in front of you the first time, you managed to use those eyes in a way to steal my heart, and I am a liar if I told you I want it back."
Talk about straightforward. "Oof, that's on the mark, you truly am not one who takes his time with things like this huh? But how do you think I am up to your standards, I'm only a middle-class man, I don't have big money and am happy with what I have."
He bends closer to me to whisper something in my ear only allowed for me to hear. "And you think those one-night-stands with your white-haired friend are enough to satisfy you?"
"Uhhhh." Shit, how does he know? Ryou and I agreed nobody would know about this, I never told a single soul. Is Ryou truly able to rat me out like this?
"He never ratted you out, I figured as much when I figured you two visited each other more than you do with your other friends. And It's okay, I do it also with a friend. The same friend who likes that white-haired male friend of you. He has a date with him right now as we speak."
"It would mean I need to end my agreement with him." I whisper weakly because I feel like putty. "We promised to stop unless the other party would agree to a threesome or even foursome."
From that moment on we managed to locate Ryou and Akeifa, and that weekend we booked a hotel were the foursome took place simply because we all wanted to try that one day, the next day Ryou and I tore the agreement in front of our boyfriends, and they did the same.
We have now a new agreement, for the outside world Ryou and Akeifa are a couple, and same counts for me and Atem, but only for our friends we are what we are, a foursome and we manage to satisfy each other.
The evening after our lunch-date, Rebecca called me the baby was born, they both are healthy, and she is willing to take her maternity leave now. I agree and tell her I want to see the little squirt before the three months of her leave are finished, she laughs and promises me to send a card.
The next day my neighbour and I drove the pup to his new home, and after that we went to a animal shelter to pick out a kitten for Haun, there was an instant match but the kitten needs to be nurtured first before they can get him. that's fine by us, gives us a few days to prepare for the feline. After we came from the shelter we went to a store and purchased all the necessaries for the kitten.
I didn't have a rundown with a high energetic dog anymore.
End.
A/N: A little drabble since I had the same accident a few days ago. And as usual poor Yugi is the victim of my pain. But I had fun writing this one. See you next time sweeties.
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