A Story
By: Adhiana
Disclaimer: I do not own any of Kazuki Takashi's: Yu-Gi-Oh.
Adhiana: Well, sorry if it seems like we kept you waiting.
Melina: Yeah, real sorry about that. And if ya'll want anything specific you better tell us now. Before we get too far into the story.
Yami: We? You mean, before I get too far into the story.
Yugi: Well, they did help us. So, yeah, this is a 'we' not an 'I'.
Yami: 'try's to glare at his hikari' Traitor!
Yugi: Well, it's the truth, and you can't ignore it!
Yami: Yes, I can! Now, on with the story, which is my idea!
Adhiana: I can't believe we're still going on about this!
Melina: Oh, brother!
Chapter 2
"What's going on here?" The principal asked this again, after not being answered the first time. He looked around Yami and saw Yugi. The principal growled.
'Oh, no. This can't be good,' Yugi thought. Mr. Crawford's glare bore into Yugi. Yugi could practically smell the anger surrounding the man. He shivered, but made sure he didn't whimper, so that no one would know his fear. His shivering didn't give him away, either, since he didn't shiver hard enough.
"Yugi," he said, low and (trying, at least to keep his voice) calm. It shook the tiniest bit. Yugi gulped, not really knowing what was going to happen, since this wasn't part of the regular day routine."Yugi...what's going on here? Why is Miss so furious with you?"
"I'll tell you why. It's because he's alive. That's why I'm so angry. The only way I'll calm down is if I know he's road kill," Miss said agrily. A lot of teachers and staff heard the comotion down the hallway and were starting to come into the classroom to see what was going on. Yugi looked around wildly and saw his favorite staff member: the librarian, Mr. Schenden. His wife was very nice, too. She often came around, even though she didn't work in the library, and helped out. The two of them would always talk gently and try and engage Yugi in calm conversation. Today, she was with him. And so, most of the staff saw the first hand torture he had been going through for years.
You see, most of the staff were instructed by the principal to treat Yugi badly, having no clue why, or what he'd done to deserve such treatement. And, in order to keep their job, they wouldn't disobey an order. It was Mr. Crawford, Miss, her husband, Mister, and Yugi's parents all in line with each other. They all tried to make his life miserable (and so far it's been working) because they all thought he was weak and worthless, so they wanted him to feel that way.
"What's going on?" most of the teachers asked. Mr. Schenden and his wife moved through the crowd and over toward Yugi. The principal tried to hold them back, but it was useless. Amanda was Mrs. Schenden's name, and Chris was Mr. Schendens. Mr. Crawford grabbed Chris's shirt and was able to restrain him, but Amanda easily moved her way around everyone and knelt down in front of Yugi. She hugged him, and he hugged her back.
"Are you okay? What's going on here?"
"You shouldn't do this! I'm worthless. All the teachers hate me, why should you and Mr. Schenden be any different," he whispered in her ear.
"Amanda, get over here. We have to leave this up to the police, we have no control over what happens anymore. I'm sorry," the principal said.
"I bet you are," Yami retorted. He gestured for Amanda to get out of the way. She acted quickly and went straight into her husbands arms.
"What did you say, young man?"
Yami glared at the principal. "Yeah know, I bet you didn't even call the police. I bet you're just giving a hoax, so you can make sure the teachers stay out of the way."
'We've gotta split guys,' he thought in his mind.
'Okay, I've got your back' Seto thought back.
"Roger, Yami," Marik and Bakura said together. Yami glared at them.
"Sorry, Yami. It slipped."
Everyone in the room looked at them, not really knowing what was going on between the four new students. Then they saw Yami's eyes close in deep concentration. Shadows started surrounding him and then starting to surround everyone else.
"Yami, you know that is not the way we do things."
"Sorry, Seto, but I have no choice." Once the room was full of dark purple and black shadows, Yami grabbed one of Yugi's arms and Seto grabbed the other. They backed away, toward the window and when they got there, they jumped. Once they landed softly on the ground, Yami called for Marik and Bakura. After the two boys, who were once again laughing their heads off, joined them they ran behind a tree not too far away from the classroom.
"Why do we have to stay here," Yugi asked.
"Sorry, it's just, I have to make the shadows dissipate. Then we can leaved," Yami told him.
"Who are ya'll? What are ya'll? How do you do those things you were doing?" Questions came spilling out of Yugi's mouth a mile a minute. Seto quickly, but gently covered his mouth.
"Shhhh. We don't want them to find us," he whispered. Yugi gave a swift nod of his head, and watched as Yami made the shadows disappear.
He giggled quietly to himself as he saw the bewildered faces of almost everyone in the classroom and the completely furious faces of Mr. Crawford, Miss, and Mister, who'd finally joined the rest of the teachers in the room. But Yugi was surprised to see Amanda and Chris' faces angry.
'Are they angry at me,' he thought. 'Oh, please don't be angry at me!'
He sighed with relief as he saw Mr. Schenden blow a whole string of curses at the principal and Miss.
"How could you be so cruel to such an innocent boy? You don't do that to any of the other students!"
Mr. Crawford ignored him, and asked,"Does anyone know where that boy might have gone?"
Joey, Malik, and Ryou looked at each other. They knew perfectly well where he'd go. But there were four other people with him, and who knew where they'd go. Yugi knew they knew where he went, but he didn't think they'd give him away, so he told the other four students to follow him.
The three boys looked out the window and saw the new students following Yugi. They knew then that Yugi was taking them to his hiding place. Malik, Ryou, and Joey once again looked at each other, sharing thoughts through their eyes.
Unbeknownst to them, Mister had noticed their eye contact and had seen the exchange of words betweem them.
"Boys, do you know something? If you do, please be considerate enough to share it with the class."
Malik looked at him and then to Joey, who looked to Ryou. Malik then looked to Ryou, too. Ryou looked at Malik and stood when Malik gave a nod of his head.
"We know where Yugi went. Where he took the new students. But if you're going to hurt anyone one of them, especially Yugi, then we will absolutely not tell you."
Mr. Crawford knelt in front of Ryou. "Are you sure you don't want to rethink that? Do you want to end up on the wrong side of the line with that boy?"
"You can't hurt me."
"Oh! And how come?"
Ryou looked to his left, right, and behind him. Malik stood at his left, Joey at his right, and the Schendens stood behind him.
"Because we won't let you hurt him or punish him for something so trivial," Chris said.
"Fine, we won't hurt them, or you guys. Now, just tell us where they went!"
"Swear?"
"I swear I won't hurt him."
"Okay, come on." Ryou walked out of the classroom followed by Malik and Joey. The principal, Miss, and Mister followed them, and Chris and Amanda followed them. They were at the end to make sure that no one else was coming with them.
When they were outside Ryou started walking out of the school grounds. The principal looked confused.
"Shouldn't we take the car?"
"No. We're walking. It's not too far from here."
And that was the end of it. No one said anything else until they reached a row of empty, abandoned warehouses.
"So this is where that little retch hides out. I wonder which one he's in," the principal said. Ryou, Malik, and Joey each took out a piece of cloth, and stepped in front of one of the teachers.
"Too bad you'll never know 'cause the only way we're letting you in is if you're blindfolded," Malik said.
"Yeah, there ain't no way we tellin' youse exactly which one," Joey said. "That's too much o' his privacy exposed. We shouldn'ta brought youse in the firs' place."
"And if you try anything, we're right here. Okay boys," Amanda said.
"Thanks, Amanda. You too, Chris. Ya'll are great people to defy the principal and help Yugi."
"No problem, Malik. That's what we're here for," said Chris.
"Now, you're not going to lay a hand on anyone in there. We're just here to talk, and find out what the problem is. If there's any trouble I'll have no problem calling to Amanda and Chris. Then we'll call the cops and tell them you tried to kidnap one of us. No doubt you probably would've if Yugi was alone and none of the rest of us were here," Ryou said, laying down the ground rules. "Ready guys?"
"Ready," Malik and Joey said in unison. They took ahold of the teachers' arms and walked them to the last warehouse on the block. Ryou knocked on the door, and the door opened a crack to reveal light amethyst eyes peeking out.
"Yugi it's me. Ryou." Yugi opened the door a bit more, still hesitant in his actions.
"What do you want?"
"To talk. And we actually brought... well we brought Miss, Mister, and Mr. Crawford."
Yugi's eyes showed fear and he went to close the door, but Ryou stuck his foot in between the frame and the door.
"They're blindfolded, so they don't know where they are. They've already sworn not to hurt you. Amanda and Chris are standing outside if anything goes wrong. Malik, Joey, and I will be restraining them the entire time. Plus you have the four new students if we need extra help. Everything will be fine. We just wanna talk so we can fix this ongoing problem."
Yugi looked reluctant, but then said okay.
"Just a second, though. I'm gonna talk to Yami, Bakura, Marik, and Seto. They're already furious enough, and I don't want to surprise them and make them more mad. They deserve to have a warning."
He shut the door, and took a deep breath.
"Who was it," Yami asked.
"That was Ryou and... he brought Joey, Malik, Mr. and Mrs. Schenden, and... he also brought... Mister, Miss, and Mr. Crawford."
"What?" Yami shouted.
"Yeah, what he said!" Bakura said.
"You told them to go away, right?" Seto asked, rubbing his temples. He was getting a headache.
"Not exactly. Ryou told me that they were blindfolded and that him, Joey, and Malik would be restraining them. He also said Amanda and Chris were going to be outside, so that if anything went wrong they could call for help. He also said that I have you guys. He said that they just wanted to talk, so we can get to the bottom of this problem. Plus he said they swore they wouldn't hurt me."
Yami and Seto rubbed their temples while Marik and Bakura laughed and laughed...and laughed.
"Will you shut up!" Yami and Seto yelled. The two maniacs didn't, though.
"I'm going to let them in now. Is that okay?"
"Yeah, just be careful, Yugi. I hope you know what you're doing," Yami sighed.
"I do." And with that he opened the door. The six awaiting people came in. "You can take the blindfolds off. They still won't know where they're at."
"Are you sure," Malik asked. Yugi nodded. They took the blindfolds off and the teachers looked around. Then they focused their attention on Yugi. Their faces were ugly with outrage and hatred.
'That's all they feel: hatred and anger. They don't feel anything else,' Yugi thought.
"Well, since you wanted to talk, let's talk. Why do you want to hurt Yugi?" Yami said, deciding to start the conversation and break the ongoing, uncomfortable silence.
"The three of us went to school with that brat's parents. They were perfect for each other: happy and hardworking. Then his mom got pregnant. That's what's wrong. They had you. They never wanted children. She took birth control pills, and they always used protection. They just wanted each other, not some bratty kid like you," Mr. Crawford started.
"They were thinking of abortion, but she said she would have the baby. They would just give it away. She was always a kind woman. Always thinking of others. Plus she was much against abortion. So, she had you. And when they saw you, they were very disappointed," Miss continued.
"They were hoping for a strong child. That way you could survive with other children. Teach yourself to stand up for yourself against other bullies. And to help keep you from getting diseases. But you were small. Too small for anyones liking. And you didn't grow much either while you were in the hospital. The doctor had heard about their decision and knew that none of the local orphanages around here were suited for a baby of your size. So, he asked if they'd rather pay to send you to an American orphanage. They were good. Plenty of food, clean, everything like that," her husband added.
"But they didn't want to pay money to send you somewhere. They just wanted to give you away. The doctor told them what would happen if they sent you to one of the local orphanages. He said you catch a 'disease' and probably die. And it was all because you were so small. So, they ended up taking you home. Your parents decided to try and raise you. Your mom was an excellent cook. And the whole point your dad became a wrestler was so he could take his anger and stress out on others instead of you and your mom. It worked for the first seven years.Then they started drinking and using drugs and beating you because they lost their jobs, and money was tight, and their was hardly any food or booze," the principal explained.
"But that doesn't explain why you want to hurt Yugi," Bakura said. Him nor Marik were laughing anymore.
"I was getting to that," Mr. Crawford said." Anyway... we always came over to your parent's house for dinner and to watch t.v. But when they started beating you, they asked us to, too. When we were hesitant at first, they called us traitors. This made us very mad, so we beat you like a dog. It felt good, too. You'd made us mad because you ruined our best friend's lives. Plus you ruined ours because you ruined theirs."
"Wow, interesting," Ryou said.
"Yeah, I wonder what would happen if the police heard this conversation," Joey said.
"They'd throw us all in jail, that's what," Miss said. The three boys grinned.
"I really was hoping you'd say that," Ryou said.
"Got it all, Malik?"
"Sure thing, Joey. Think it's enough, Ryou. After all, you do read all those books on law," he said.
"I think so, but now we need a confession from his parents. Either that or Yugi'll have to testify in court."
"What're ya'll talking about," Marik asked. They didn't say anything, just smiled at each other knowlingly, agian.
"Why you little...," Mr. Crawford started. He never finished because at that moment, three police officers burst through the door.
"FREEZE," they shouted. No one moved a muscle. The officers walked around the room to the three teachers.
"Are these the three teachers we got a call about," one of the officers asked the Schendens, who had come in right after the officers.
"Yep. Malik, did you get a confession?"
"The best. They also confessed to us that Yugi's parents beat him, too. Will it be enough, Officers?"
"We'll have to see. For now, let's take these three down to the station. We'll get the parents later," another officer said.
"Thanks, Officers," Ryou said.
"And one more thing, which one of you is Yugi?"
"I-I am, Sir," Yugi stammered, and raised his hand.
"Well, son, do you have a place to stay until we get this all worked out?"
Yugi looked down and was about to say no when Yami put a hand on Yugi's shoulder.
"He can stay with me and my friends. I'm sure no one at our house will mind."
"That's nice of you. Just make sure you get that arm to feeling better. It's dripping blood," the officer said.
"Hey, did these people do that to you?"
"No, actually I get picked on at schoo, too. The biggest bully of the school did this," Yugi said.
"Ushio did that," Joey asked. Yugi nodded.
"So, that was your blood we saw in the hallway this morning," Yami said. Yugi looked at the four new students and gave a shy smile.
"Can we talk about it later, please?"
"Okay."
"Well, if a student brings a knife to school and uses it on another student, we can take him to juvenile," Ryou said.
Joey grabbed Ryou, put him in a headlock, and gave him a nugie. "Man, you've gotta stop reading those law books. They're killin' me, literally!"
Everyone laughed, except for the teachers.
"So, tell me, what's this bullies name?"
"Ushio something."
"I don't think anyone really knows his last name, but he's probably the only 'Ushio' in school. His name's pretty unique to me," Joey said. Everyone laughed again.
"Well, you guys have a good night. We'll get your parents and that bully of yours later on."
Then the officers left, and everyone was left standing in silence.
"We'd better get home. I don't want anyone worrying about us," Yami said.
"Yeah, us, too," Malik said. "Why don't we meet up tomorrow and see what's going on?"
"Sure, but where? We don't know where either of us lives."
"How about ya'll come to our house. We'll take you out to breakfast and give you a drive to school," Amanda asked. Everyones face's brightened at this.
"We would, but we don't know where it is," Seto said, stating the obvious.
"Yugi knows where it's at. So do you three. So, how about it?" Chris asked.
"Sure, why not." They all said. And with that, they split.
Adhiana: Whoa, finally. I'm finished.
Melina: Yep, now you get to write chapter three!
Adhiana: 'groan' But my fingers hurt.
Yami: So... that's what being a writer's all about.
Adhiana: Whatever. Sorry I took so long with this chapter. I started it and then Melina and I went to my dad's house(parents are divorced). We stayed longer than we expected. Today's actually the first day I've been back in a week. So, I finished typing this.
Yami: Well, why couldn't me and Yugi finish typing it?
Melina: 'snort/laugh'
Adhiana: Because the last time you got on my computer, you almost blew the computer and the whole house up. I'm not trusting you to get on alone when I can't even trust you to get on when I'm here.
Melina: That was a trip wasn't it.
Adhiana: It wasn't funny. They almost got me in trouble.
Melina: You're right, it wasn't funny... it was absolutely hilarious!
Yami: Hey, Seto.
Kaiba: Just because we're friends in the story 'shoots glare at Adhiana' doesn't mean we're friends in real life.
Yami: Awww... Seto... that hurt.
Kaiba: So, what. 'leaves to get something to eat'
Adhiana: Yugi please tell our rapid readers what to do before I go crazy.
Yugi: Sure. We need three reviews for chapter three. And since you already have two, you only need on more.
Adhiana: 'whispers something to Yugi'
Yugi: But Adhiana would like to have seven reviews before the next chapter goes up because she needs some time to write the next chapter. She hopes it's okay with ya'll.
Adhiana: Well, thanks for reading. Hope you enjoyed, and if you think the rating should ever go up, please tell me immediately! Thank you and review!
