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"Chapter 3: Complicated?"
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The bane of fright unveils
A light vanishes from sight
Shadowed child will find
A crying soul in the wild
Yugi trudged back home, a bitter and solemn expression on his face. His footsteps were slow, deliberate, gyrating on the ground. His mind was filled thoughts, both foul and bad. Why did the elders have to say that?
Just why?
*Flashback*
Yugi nervously trudged in the big house, where the elders resided. He licked his lips and opened the rice paper doors, seeing the elders prepared as ever.
For one, everyone might thought they were old as prunes, but no, they were wrong. The elders were all beautiful and handsome, 3 beautiful enticing female kitsunes, and 4 handsome males. The elders were one of the oldest foxes in their village and Yugi sat down infront of them, bowing low, his head touching the floor.
"Great and wise elders, I have come at your request. What do you require of me, o wise one?" he asked humbly, voice soft.
Jonouchi's news gave him quite a fright, making him wish that the ground would swallow him up and bury him, but nooo, the dirty blonde haired fox had to drag him to the elder's council so he could meet them.
Yugi closed his eyes, praying that everything would be over soon.
One of the elders, a kind and soft spoken fox, with green eyes and black hair, smiled at the youngling. "Please rise, young one. You are permitted to look at us." she informed, her voice kind, holding a certain urgent tone underneath that Yugi had noticed.
Yugi did so, thanking them graciously, his form graciously sitting up and straightening, and his violet orbs opening. "Is there a reason you have called for me, wise ones?"
The black haired fox, the head of them all, spoke. He was the supreme chief in their clan, one of the oldest and wisest. "Yes. As a matter of fact, we do, young Yugi." he said, voice deep, calm, and dangerous, it made Yugi shiver in fear.
"Our barrier is weakening as of now, and we need to do something about it. The previous protection is wearing thin and we are in dire... need of a sacrifice.. as one would say," the man gave pause, Yugi's heart quaked and shattered. "In a year's time, we need to perform a ritual, a sacrifice... and well, you were the chosen candidate in Kirai's vision. Would you be willing to be the sacrifice in a year's time, young one?"
Yugi almost cried right then and there but he kept a blank face on, his form tense and his heart tearing apart, making him let out an internal scream. No one wanted to be a sacrifice, they always chose the orphans to spare them the pain... and he was one, he bit his lips and bowed low.
"As you wish, wise ones. I will perform and be the sacrifice for our protection." he whispered.
They all nodded, expression solemn, pity in their gazes when Yugi looked up.
*Flasback End*
The young lighr fox felt a tear escape his eye and he furiously wiped it away, brisk walking to his home, his den. He sniffled slightly and opened the door, slamming it shut once he was inside.
He slid down the floor and hugged his knees to his chest, burying his face on his kneecaps and letting the tears run down his face, sobs escaping his lips, his heart expressing what could not be voiced.
He was now in a complicated situtation, he wondered why he deserved such a cruel fate.
'Why did it have to be me? Why does it always have to be the orphans? Can't we just simply live in peace? Can't we just even stop the territorial claims and not live in unity? Why?' his mind kept repeating over and over again.
He was frightened of what was to come. He wasn't ready for this, he'd rather be banished than be sacrificed. No one wanted that kind of fate. No one even deserves that!
Yugi sniffled and stood up, eyes bloodshot and tears still pouring down his face, he hiccupped and staggered to his bedroom, struggling with opening the door through blurry vision.
Once he succesfully opened the door, he crashed into his bed and screamed on his pillow, tears now a waterfall, tails flairing out and frazzling, the bell ornament on his hairpin dropping to the ground and making a solemn jingle.
A sound that decided Yugi and Yami's fate.
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Yami returned home a little late, going back to his den and going in, shuttung the door.
He sighed softly, feeling his chest ache for some reason that he did not know, and proceeded to make himself a meal. He had hunted a few days ago and he knew that there was still food in his cabinet that he had stored.
Yugi's face popped into Yami's mind and he was forced to halt in his steps, his brows furrowing, his hand in midair, about to reach into the cabinet. "Yugi..." he whispered, blinking.
What was wrong with the light fox? Surely, Yami would not think of such trivial things if he did not care. His intuition was telling him, that something was utterly wrong with the other that caused him distress. Yami was not one to doubt, but this one, he did not know if it was a fact or a falsity.
Biting his lips, he tried shaking the distressed thought away.
'What on earth is happening to him now? I'm sure he's fine right?' the male found himself thinking.
He sat on the lone table to think, while eating his meal, the thoughts bothering him until he went to sleep.
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"Yugi? Yugi...?" a soft voice shook the light fox awake.
Yugi blinked his eyes open, the tear stains last night evident on his face, he looked up to the one who had spoken and blinked, seeing a doe eyed, white haired fox.
He blinked again and widened his eyes. "Ryou? What are you doing here? You're not allowed in our territory remember?" his voice shook.
Ryou smiled kindly, concern shining in his eyes as his white ears twitched, 6 tails drapping around his lap. "I don't care Yugi, I snuck in, in your home. I know i'm a bit far from my clan but I don't care. You're still my friend." he assured.
See, Ryou was an ice fox, who had so happened to catch Yugi playing in the streams. The white haired male had decided to freeze the stream and had sent thr tri-colired fox, screaming from the cold... and ever since that encounter, they had become friends, even though their first meeting wasn't very pleasant.
"Oh Yugi, what happened to you? You've never cried until you slept before." Ryou asked mournfully.
Yugi felt the tears gather and he looked away. "It's... it's complicated Ryou, it's not something that I want to talk about. I want to spare you from the heartache." he said, eyes sad and defeated, form slack against his bed.
Ryou frowned, and ruffled Yugi's hair gently, caressing the tresses, like a worried mother. "Is it that personal? You know talking about what troubles you helps, right?" he countered.
Yugi groaned and buried his face on the pillow, tears leaking out his eyed again, his voice cracked as he spoke. "I d-don't want to t-talk about it... please, Ryou. Not now." his voice was muffled, yet the ice fox could tell that Yugi did not want to be distressed again, so he dropped the subject.
"Promise to tell me when you're ready then?"
A pause from Yugi, then a nod. "I promise. Just, not now."
Ryou nodded and picked up the bell that had fallen on the floor. Putting the ornament on the bed, the male stood up and hummed. "I'll cook breakfast for you, okay? I don't want you starving.
Yugi nodded, face still buried in the pillow.
The ice fox sighed and walked to the kitchen.
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Ryou bit his lips as he scavenged the cabinets for food, successfully finding spices and some left over meat. He sucked in a breath and proceeded to prepare the food.
He was too focused in his task that he did not hear nor see Yugi had snuck out of the house, and had ran off.
When Ryou turned around, he gasped in shock, his eyes widening as he rushed to the bedroom. "Yugi..?" he asked, then opened the door. No one was there, the sheets were unruly.
The food he was about to prepare was left on the kitchen.
His eyes widened more as he turned around to see the front door, open and swinging with the light breeze.
Ryou froze... then screamed in panic;
"YUGI!!"
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Yugi ran and ran, his feet tripping and stumbling on small branches. He wanted to get away, wanted to be free, the burden of responsibility heavy on his shoulders. He choked out a sob and stumbled more, vision blurry and body weak. He was long gone from the village, in an unfamiliar part of the forest.
'I don't want to be a sacrifice!' he cried out, his mind going deeper with malicious thoughts of himself.
His feet got hooked in a tree root, causing him to fall, and cry out as his body hit the ground with a painful thud. Yugi yelped in pain, his feet shooting off electrical shocks that made his body convulse.
The young fox whimpered and curled up from the agony, crying hysterically as the weight of the burden tried to drive him insane. He didn't want to be a sacrifice!
His life was already complicated, so why did he accept that task?
Just why?
Yugi sobbed as he pushed himself up with his hands, crawling to a nearby tree and leaning against it, clutching his ankle as waves of pain kept its onslaught.
He looked around, tears streaming down his face, seeing he was in an unfamiliar territory, his heart began to fear and his shaking form, trembled more.
A creature slithered up to him, Yugi's eyes widening as he saw it was one of the demons in a book he had read. It was a..
A Tsuchigomo, a spider demon.
His eyes widened and he whimpered as the spider looked at him with its beady eyes, black poison dripping out of its fangs. The thing paused and then seemed to grin, clapping its fangs together and then charging, letting out a horrid shriek.
Yugi yelled and held out his hand, looking away, accidentally sending a blast of light in his fear.
He did not notice frost coating the ground below him.
The tsuchigomo let out a loud shriek from the light, the thing blinded by the brightness. The spider let out a hiss and snapped it fangs at the fox then ran off, skittering away and avoiding the male at all cost.
Yugi, after a few minutes and not feeling the spider's presence anymore, looked up and then his tears began anew as his form slacked.
Little did he know, a certain someone so happened to pass by and saw what had happened.
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Yami stood frozen, stupified at what he had just seen. Yugi had... Yugi had almost blasted that spider to bits and Yami had seen it all unfold. "Yugi...?" he whispered, shocked beyond belief.
Slowly, he made his way to the crying fox, aghast by his sobs. He stood there for a minute before sitting down cautiously besides the other. "Yugi?" he spoke, softly, trying to be as gentle as possible in coaxing the other.
The light fox froze at the voice, breathing amuck and ragged. That voice... he knew that voice.
Slowly opening his eyes, he turned his head to the dark fox and teared up more. He sobbed once then twice, then threw himself to the other, throwing Yami out of balance, and unto the ground.
Shocked, Yami could not move for a while paralyzed at the sudden emotions the other was showing. When he had regained his sense, he slowly wrapped his arms around the other, pulling him close and comforting him, distressed as well at Yugi's behaviour. "Yugi, Yugi, what's the matter? Why do you cry?" he asked.
Yugi shook his head, his hysterical sobs the only thing heard in the wild where they currently were.
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Reeeee here is the chapter! Tragic? I thibk not! Lets find out in the next chapter of Kitsune's lore!! Leave a review please! Thank you so much!