Little Bitty Pretty One

Chapter Fifteen

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Atem's eyes opened anew and he bit his lip in pain at the body suspended in the air. Yugi's arms were tied together and were tied to the chandelier above the bed. His clothes were ripped and strewn about the room. His chest, and he assumed his back, were filled with red marks and scratches, cuts and Bruises. His head hung low as he had passed out some time ago. His hair drooping down in shame. Atem rushed over to him and started to untie him. Seto walked in with Jou and they heard a soft gasp.

"Y-Yug'" Jou looked away as Seto stepped onto the bed to help Atem untie the boy.

Yugi fell limply into Atem's arms and Atem pet his hair and looked down at his face and flinched, Yugi had cried for him and he wasn't there. Instead he was at the store bothering with his money. Money. Everything was money. He turned up to Seto, "I quit." He breathed.

Seto nodded, "I already fired you."

Jou blinked when Atem said thank you. "Pegasus did this!" Jou pointed to a brand mark on Yugi's lower stomach on the soft patch of skin between his stomach and his thigh. A red 'P' with wings on either side was burned right onto the boy like a permanent tattoo.

Atem looked up and growled. "I want you two to wash him up and get him to the hospital. I have to find Pegasus!" Atem vowed and stormed out of the room.

"Atem, wait, you don't know what you're up against." Jou called.

"Don't try and change my mind, Jou. I will do this for Yugi and nothing is going to stop me." Atem vowed, "Don't you worry. Pegasus will get what's coming to him." He smirked and headed down the hall. 'He better be ready for me.' He growled lowly.

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"Will he be okay?" Jou inquired

"Don't worry about him. You will see why I love having him work for me. Well he's not working for me now; nonetheless, he is a very good ally." Seto admitted. "Now let's tend to your friend."

"Sarah?" Jou sat up wondering about the nurse who had helped him before.

"Sarah." Seto nodded and called for the girl to enter the room. She smiled as she walked in and gave a slight bow. "Sarah, you see this boy?" she nodded, "he is very dear to us and I want you to treat him with the same gentleness as you would treat me. Understand?"

"Yes, Mr. Kaiba "she smiled, "Of course." She knelt down at the bed's right side and gently began to cut away the remaining parts of Yugi's clothing. He had been burned a few times by cigarettes and it had somehow melted the boy's clothes to his body. Sarah sighed, who would do such a thing to a cute one, such as this. It made her want to cry but she knew she had work to do. She vowed inwardly that he would be placed in the best of care. She would make him, not only better, but as good as new.

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Atem stormed into the Orange Lemon bar and suddenly the music stopped as if his presence somehow sucked all of the fun and life from the room. People everywhere could sense his danger and did well to hold their breaths. "Where is Pegasus!" His voice boomed sending a wave of danger to all those who would try and stop him from his charge. "You all have until the count of three to tell me where he is." He warned.

"Ah, Atem. Welcome. We've have been expecting you. Now there is no need to threaten these people. Come sit down, we'll have a talk like civilized people."

That voice! Atem's eyes widened as a crowd of people made a path to the table that voiced the inviting sit-down. "Bakura! I might have known."

"Oh good, then you wont ask why I did that to you're little cherub." He smirked, "You made me lose my happiness and I wanted you to lose yours. That boy has gone and made you soft."

"He has nothing to do with it. I changed on my own if only to keep from changing into someone like you." Atem said.

"Bull! That is a lie and you know it. You were fully ready to take that man's company and make us millions, then you meet this boy and all of a sudden you feel the need to change? Ha. That boy changed your mind for you."

"Watch it Bakura, you are on dangerous ground."

"Now, Now boys, please let's have a little sit down. Atem, please join us." The smooth cotton candy voice of Pegasus beckoned Atem calmly walked toward them, the people moving as far away from him as possible and closed in after he sat down.

"Why should this be so violent?"

"If I recall correctly, you started with violence and now I am finishing with it." Atem said. "Make no mistake. Yugi may have changed me for the better but I am still the same when it comes to protecting what is mine."

"Then by all means, name the stakes." Pegasus smiled.

"Alright, we are going to play a little game. If I win you and Bakura must turn yourselves in to the police."

"And if I win?"

"If you win, Jou, Yugi, and I will be your new prostitutes." Atem smirked, cringing inwardly at the idea.

"Oooh, I know a great deal of men and women who would love to be in your company." Pegasus smirked. "And Bakura gets your entire estate."

"Done." Atem nodded and Bakura's lips curled up into a wicked smile.

"Deal." Pegasus accepted

"Game Start." Atem smiled.